She was almost glowing with resolution. She realized that to display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualit… - Robert Aickman

'I didn't find it in the least difficult,' said Grigg. 'Those meant to succeed at a thing never do find the thing difficult.' 'Meant? Meant by whom?' 'By the life of which they are a part, whether they know it or not.' 'It is very mystical,' said Grigg.

She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophistication.

I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once let it.