Though the leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days — The lying days

"I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever."

"The job that Paul did first interest then excited me"

"You always see yourself such a high standard, Helen. That is the trouble. You are such a snob when it comes to emotion. Only the loftiest, the purest, will do for you. Sometimes I have thought it is a kind of laziness. If you embrace something that seems to embody all this idealism, you fill you have achieved the loftiest, the purest, the most real."

"Even a doctor working in a native hospital only touched the lives of his patients in one situation, that of hurt or illness. However, as a welfare officer-first, he had been a junior, now he was an assistant to the chief –Paul entered into the gamut of the Africans lives"

"the state of the liberal consciousness at this early stage in the history of modern South Africa"

"A time of special intimate gaiety and friendship with some vague companion” arrives soon"