“I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.”
“Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”
“The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?”
“The smile that spread across my face felt like sunshine warming me from the inside out”
“I can't bail out on Cary," I said apologetically, turning to face him. "Chicks before dicks and all that.”
“I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.”