“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”
“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ”
“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,and frightening that it does not quite.”
“It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
“He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries.”