Status Updates From The Demon Lover

Reading the Demon Lover story alone for my class on Monday and let me tell you I did not expect that.
At all.

"Towards the end of her day in London Mrs. Drover went round to her shutup house to look for several things she wanted to take away. Some belonged to herself, some to her family, who were by now used to their country life. It was late August; it had been a steamy, showery day: at the moment the trees down the pavement glittered in an escape of humid yellow afternoon sun."

And one more quote that I like, also from this page (199):

"If you can blow whole places out of existence, you can blow whole places into it. I don't see why not."

This gave me major deja vu, to the point that I started trying to find the quote in other books and stories I've read recently:

"'Every thing and place had been found and marked on some map; so what wasn't marked on any map couldn't be there at all...That was what set me off hating civilization.'
'Well, cheer up,' he said; 'there isn't much of it left.'"

This delights me:

"The only point about that region is that it has no point and that it goes on and on. I think there are floods there sometimes, there would be nothing to stop them; a forest fire would be what is needed really, but that would not be possible as there are no trees. It would have looked better, really, just left as primeval marsh, but someone once said, 'Let there be bungalows'."