“Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.”

“I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.”

“She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.”

“She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.”

“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”

“Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking his head. This is all.”

“She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong.”