“Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.”

“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.”

“Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.”

“After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence:"I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute."It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply.”

“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”