He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

“there was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled …”

“He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down …”

“The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was …”