“So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.”
“You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her."I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you.”
“A girl doesn't mind a little trouble in her life now and then.”
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.”
“He looked at her in complete devotion. “We made a little baby…”She smiled and giggled. “It wasn’t that hard either, was it?” “I don’t know about you but I was working pretty hard.”
“She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.”