“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”

“I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I had better do.' 'And did the Lord suggest your sticking up your father for ten shillings?' 'No, I thought of that,' said Maud, not turning a hair.”

“At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.”

“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.”

“You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.”

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.”

“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye”