“The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!”

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

“…she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.”

“She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She understood now the case of girls like herself to whom this kind of thing happened. They gave all they had, but their all was not enough; it could not buy more than a few moments...”

“Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian’s ease of manner and flow of ideas.”

“Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.”