“We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial.”

“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own sort who will go with us and to whom we can say the first thing that comes into our heads. For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

“But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into.”

“It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.”

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”

“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.”

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”