“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.”

“...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.”

“But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the wisdom in her, the wisdom that was frittered away in her 'teens', set aside in her twenties, now, lying there, palpable and with forty summers gone. She clenched her hands together. What good was wisdom; what good was anything when the fawn is fled from the grove?”

“All this time she’d thought it God’s will that she be a spinster. She had grown content with that expectation, taking satisfaction in the wisdom she’d gained through her experience with Stephen. No man would dupe her again. But what if living alone was never part of God’s plan for her? What if she chose that life because it was safe—because she was afraid?”

“God only knows what the doctor gave her. However,the medication has run out and she now must face the reality on her on accord.”

“What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!”