“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”
“It was an ill-omened place. Death walked there in the sunlight.”
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
“It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.”
“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”