Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Many argue; not many converse.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.