“Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face.”

“memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away”

“Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.”

“The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”