Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.