“He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.”

“With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. ”

“He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed.”

“He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.”

“About how their song had never sounded so sweet.And of the man who held her.Of how it felt as if he was the home she’d never had.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”