“They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.”

“It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page.”

“Nothing here but kitchen things.”

“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.Susan Glaspell, author ”

“For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.”

“She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany.”

“... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.”