“At the back of their personal troubles, hopes and fears, this less immediate trepidation grew, this intangible suggestion of change, that most unforgivable of all heresies.”

“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”

“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”

“As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ”

“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”

“The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.”

“If you meet someone who has the same first name as this person, you immediately like them less.”

“Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.”