When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

One must love everything.

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.