Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

For nothing was simply one thing.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?