1. The alphabet

    Yet he would not die lying down; he would find some crag of rock, and there, his eyes fixed on the storm, trying to the end to pierce the darkness, he would die standing. He would never reach R.

  2. Gone crooked

    He was coming to see himself, and everything he had ever known gone crooked a little. It was awfully strange.

  3. A coherence in things

    There is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune to change, and shines out…in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

  4. All dark and spreading

    Beneath it is all dark, it is spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

  5. There, with a dash on the beach

    How life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

  6. Distance

    Distance had an extraordinary power.
    So much depends, she thought, upon distance.