"Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences."

"He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear."

"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"

"It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be"

"I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome."

"I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

"She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all."

"...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."

"He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty."

"To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."

"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any."

"Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not."

"...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert."

"They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything."

"And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities."

"But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart."

"His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen."

"It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."

"Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."

"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights."

"She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate."

"I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again."

"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."

"What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."