Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.