“Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?”

“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

“We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?”

“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...”

“... He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: "Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.”

“To begin with, I hate these new-fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner?”