“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.”

“A park like this resembles a large, silent, isolated room. In fact it's always Sunday in a park, by the way, for it's always a bit melancholy, and the melancholy stirs up vivid memories of home, and Sunday is something that only ever existed at home, where you were a child.”

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”

“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”

“The difference in Miss Denham's countenance, the change from Miss Denham sitting in cold grandeur in Mrs. Parker's drawing room, to be kept from silence by the efforts of others, to Miss Denham at Lady Denham's elbow, listening and talking with smiling attention or solicitous eagerness, was very striking -- and very amusing or very melancholy, just as satire or morality might prevail.”

“Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.”