IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS - QUOTES AND ANALYSIS

Edition used: Harper Collins, New York, New York, 2004

1.) ‘Thank God, Rutherford,' he said, ‘you are capable of imagining things.' pg. 17;

Here Conway expresses his relief that he can tell his story to someone who has the capacity to believe what he is going to hear.

2.) Quia impossibile est. pg. 19;

Rutherford reminds the narrator of this quote by Tertullian which means in a free translation: It is certain, because it is impossible. It reflects......

.........12.) . . . the two worlds were finally beyond reconciliation, and one of them hung, as always, by a thread. pg. 219;

Conway has this thought as he bids Mallinson good-bye. It is his realization that the outside is more than ever in need of what Shangri-La has to offer.

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