He was a dark-haired, fresh-faced boy of twenty-one or twenty-two, who adopted the pose that everything was a joke and nothing really mattered. - Nevil Shute

Airline stewardesses are not chosen for their repellent qualities, and Miss Corder was a very charming girl.

She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

She said, "When you've seen all the new places you've got no more new places to see. And anyway, one new place is just like another new place. . . . I used to like meeting new people every trip - and I still do. But those things, meeting new people, seeing new places, they aren't everything. And while you go on in that sort of life you can't have any real friends or any real home. Because you're never there . . ."