“There was something deep within him that he had absolutely shown to no one—to the companion of these walks in particular not a bit more than he could help; but he was none the less haunted, under its shadow, with a dire apprehension of its publicity.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I'll marry you, mind you, in an hour."
"As we were?"
"As we were."
But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end. "We shall never be again as we were!”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“People think that if they travel inwards, it will confirm their worst fears and then there will be no hope. You are not your worst fears. You are more than your best dreams.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“What had come to pass within his walls lingered there as an obsession importunate to all his senses; it lived again, as a cluster of pleasant memories, at every hour and in every object; it made everything but itself irrelevant and tasteless. It remained, in a word, a conscious watchful presence, active on its own side, forever to be reckoned with, in face of which the effort at detachment was scarcely less futile than frivolous.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“There were immensities between you.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“He knew soon enough that it was of himself he was afraid, and that even, if he didn't take care, he should infallibly be more so.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Don't you know?"
"How should I, my dear—in the absence of everything?”
Source: The Wings of the Dove