“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”

“You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.”

“When it's for each other that people give things up theydon't miss them”

“You think too much.''I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.”

“Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots.”

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

“So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so."Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out."She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't indeed resist you."Then there we are!" said Strether.”