"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."
Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2
"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, "in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' they say, 'in there, of course.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus."
Ch. 8 : Moonlight at Belbury, section 2
Their own strength has betrayed them. They have...pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.
Ch. 13 : They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads
Not till then did his controllers allow him to suspect that death itself might not after all cure the illusion of being a soul—nay, might prove the entry into a world where that illusion raged infinite and unchecked. Escape for the soul, if not for the body, was offered him. He became able to know (and simultaneously refused the knowledge) that he had been wrong from the beginning, that souls and personal responsibilityexisted. He half saw: he wholly hated. The physical torture of the burning was not fiercer than his hatred of that.
Ch. 16 : Banquet at Belbury, section 6
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