Quotes about Reflection

He wanted a world that was like walking through rain

Books mean more than people to me anyway.

After lunch they were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others, and missing the clamor of Empire they felt that life was not continuing here.

As the new alcohol tumbled into his stomach and warmed him, the isolated pictures began slowly to form a cinema reel of the day before.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.

No amount of fre or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.

What are you looking at? I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy. Nicole was frightened: Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!