“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
“Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.”
“What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.”
“Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)”
“God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.”
“Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing? If so, you're much mistaken.”