“I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.”
“Pa, I can't ask her to marry me until I have a way to care for her.”
“I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.”
“That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!”
“I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
“Sometimes, I think I have made you up just to torture myself- and there are other times that I know you must be real because I couldn't have dreamed such perfection.”