“Pardon,Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't.”

“The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.”

“I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.”

“There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.”

“Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.”

“Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”

“Let us have all the delights of which we are capable.”