“I might have been sad for them if they weren't so disgustingly happy.”
“I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.”
“They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't yet understand it, but I felt it.”
“He had been through so much, and had grown so discouraged, so sad, so disgusted with himself, that he could understand... It was the worst thing in the world to lose faith with oneself.”
“His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.”
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”