“It's too cowardly, and besides, I don't have the courage. [on why he hadn't killed himself yet]”
“He's got courage," Alex said."Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--”
“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”
“And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now”
“His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.”
“You love with a fierce courage that I do not understand, and yet I wish that I could have it too.”