“Immortals are never alien to one another.”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
“If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet”
“Watching his cofarmer return to the cove, Runt had the strangest sensation: a kind of foreknowing, as if he and Ox were immortal and ancient in this alien place.”
“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!”
“The greatest pain one will ever know is pain that touches the soul, for the soul is immortal and can never be erased.”