“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.”

“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”

“In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.”

“As long as you believe it is impossible, you will actually never find out if it is possible or not.”

“You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—”