“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”