“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

“I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.”

“But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...”

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.”

“She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.”

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.”