“Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.”
“[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.”
“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head as a switchbox where she controlled from; but with him, she could only imagine the outside in, the whole black world in his head and his head bigger than the world, his head big enough to include the sky and planets and whatever was or had been or would be.”
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
“Even without much experience in friendships, the lonely girl and the castaway boy filled the time as two friends should.”
“What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.”