“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“This was a passage in which everyone moved and was unfathomable, which was how Thomasina saw people. She was not a person who froze someone's character in her mind, calling this one egotistical and that one not nearly confident enough and another one truthful or untruthful. To Thomasina people were rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.”

“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.”

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”