“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
“He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.”
“Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.”
“A man could not always be where he belonged, though.”
“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her ambition and her humanity”