“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”

“The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.”

“Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.”

“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.”

“She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.”

“... the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when her aloneness took on a darker hue, that she almost wished there would be no more guess, for then there would be no chasm of emptiness for her to negotiate when they were gone.”