It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever. ↗