in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.