“Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.”

“Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.”

“Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?”

“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”

“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”

“When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.”

“But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.”