“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.”

“Far as I'm concerned, they're all still here, like a lot of dear little ghosts.”

“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence.”

“So now we are young still but a better sort of young.”

“If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.”

“And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it”

“It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be?”