“The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.”

“I loved a man,"she said. "I told you - a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.”

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”

“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.”

“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.”

“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.”