“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

“I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between. ”

“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”

“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...”

“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”