“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
“She was busy trying to stab me to death with her umbrella and I was busy trying to dodge." He made a little face. "She was better at her stabbing than I was about dodging.”
“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.”
“From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.”
“And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life.”
“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”