“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”
“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
“Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.”
“...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.”
“What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?”
“He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.”