“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”
“She hadn't been hurt in any real way, had she? No one had treated her badly. I must just be overly sensitive to things, she convinced herself.”
“I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.”
“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
“She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.”