I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.