“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

“I closed my eyes against the suddensorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.”

“Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.”

“If only he didn't believe he was Shamu's distant cousin. It was such a shame for someone so sublime to be certifiable.”