“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

“I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.”

“Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?”

“It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”

“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”

“And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.”

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

“For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.”

“We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.”