“Ill times may be; she hath no thought of time:
She reigns beside the waters yet in pride.”

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

“For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters.”

“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”

“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.”

“Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.”

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

“when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural”