...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.
The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.
Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.