“I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!”

“In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.”

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

“It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races.”

“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.”

“I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life.”

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”