“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead”

“The longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.”

“The longest way round is the shortest way home.(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)”

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name. That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. He tried to think what a big thought that must be; but he could only think of God. God was God's name just as his name was Stephen.”

“This is the way to the museyroom. Mind your boots goan out.”