""That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."" The Fog Horn, p10

"For the first time they knew their town was beautiful, and the lonely lights and the ancient bricks beautiful, and they both felt their eyes grow large with the beauty of this feast they were giving themselves." The Wilderness, p30

" "But there are times," said the Emperor, more sadly still, "when one must lose a little beauty if one is to keep what little beauty one already has." - Emperor Yuan. The Flying Machine, p51

"Some other man, who, seeing you, will build a thing of bright papers and bamboo like this. But the other man will have an...