Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

I like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The  story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.