She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.