“What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.”
“The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.”
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.”
“The best things to use is your fantasy,if you do not use your fantasy then who are you? You must use your fantasy to clarify what is inside you.”
“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”