“People who travel are always fugitives.”

“People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.”

“Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.”

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.”

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”

“Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.”