"Perhaps, I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp of tobacco smoke- a thought to fade and vanish like smoke without a trace- perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; a hill of many invisible crests; doors that open as in a dream to reveal only a further stretch of carpet and another door; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappontment n our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us."
- Evelyn Waugh
"The human being is constantly straining towards this infinity," concludes Vanier: "a thirst to be filled, to be recognised in one's uniqueness, a thirst to be free, to be loving, to be a source of life for others...Our thirst is infinite but it is carried in fragile vessels." - Jean Vanier
"It is precisely because of the eternity outside time that everything in time becomes valuable and important and meaningful. Therefore Christianity...makes it of urgent importance that everything we do here should be rightly related to what we eternally ar. 'Eternal life' is the sole sanction for the values of this life."- Dorothy L. Sayers
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