When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

“Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one …”

“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June nigh…”

“now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again tha…”

“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing…”