“For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.”

“(...) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.”

“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the other that no sentence could seem wholly impersonal. There are times when the whole world is personal to a mood whose intensity seems a reason for all things. Words are of small moment when the mere sound of a voice makes an unreasonable joy.”

“Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.”

“When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.”

“When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.”