“In every parting there is an image of death.”

“We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”

“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”

“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.”