“He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.”

“He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart”

“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.”

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite incapable of filling it with anything; but with his whole being he suddenly felt that he no longer possessed any freedom of thought or of will, and that everything had suddenly been decided once and for all.”

“He watched Warrick walk away across the café, and started sentences in his mind. Don't go yet. I want five minutes, that's all. One minute. I want you. This could be the last time I see you. This really could be the last time. I want you to—”

“For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.”