“...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...”
“Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.”
“If you are stuck sweating on a sandbar in the river of your life you've got to find a way back into those swift effervescent currents of joy that are your birthright.”
“Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.”
“The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.”
“The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface.”