“No day copies yesterday,no two nights will teach what bliss isin precisely the same way,with precisely the same kisses.”

“our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. "co-incidence" means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time.”

“Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.”

“This was the dreamy, paradisiacal side of domestic ritual: when all the days were possessed of the same minutiae precisely because you wanted them to be.”

“There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.”

“It was like being wrapped in a sheet, all white, nothing but white, above, below, all around you. It was the exact opposite of darkness, but it frightened Alice in precisely the same way.”