“She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.”
“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”
“She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.”
“They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.”
“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”
“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”