“...it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul...Let good come unto the world.”

“... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.”

“woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.”

“Christians are called unto holiness and are to be engaged actively in self-purification. They are to walk in good works which have been prepared before, unto which they have been called. But how is it possible to visualize this activity of believers outside of their culture? Is holiness restricted to the life of the soul?”

“O let me love my love unto myself alone,And know my knowledge to the world unknown,No witness to the vision call,Beholding, unbeheld of all...”

“Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.”