"Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked. "Walking, Mother." "And whom did you see?" Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a stone. "I did no… - Patrick White

For several hours we were thrown and battered — till suddenly calm felt — the calmest calm I have ever experienced at sea. God had willed us to enter the eye — you know about it? the still centre of the storm — where we lay at rest — surrounded by hundreds of seabirds, also resting on the water.

The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.

Two people do not lose themselves at the identical moment, or else they might find each other, and be saved. It is not as simple as that.