“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”

“You possess a unique, innate ability to see most aspects of most situations all at once!”

“She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.”

“Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.”

“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother’s generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny.”

“She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger and more powerful people who cared nothing for her. She had always been afraid, and her fear had made her angry.”