How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

The defective can be more than the entire.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.