“Somewhere, deep down him, he was scared, he was born scared. And those who are born with fear are natural slaves, whose profund instint leads to dread, with poisonous fear, all of those who suddenly can possibly cut loose the slave colar around their necks.”

“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.”

“In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on show, he had to see it. That was Life.”

“Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.”

“He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.”

“She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.”

“Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.”