“Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.”
“I'm a fan of the volcanic imagination. It bubbles and boils below the surface; it rumbles. When it erupts, continents are born.”
“A soap bubble is as real as a fossil tooth.”
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”