I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)