“Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170”

“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284”

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.p 290”

“...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.p 284”

“I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.p 284”

“Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all.p 227”

“boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?”