“It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.”

“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.”

“Marriages maybe made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth. ”

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”

“You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.”

“Like so many irritating details of the Universe(which, come to think of it, is made up almost wholly of irritating details), the truth is much more complicated than could be adequately covered by a binary yes-or-no, good-or-bad, old-or-new summary.”