“You men,' she says. 'You durn men.”
“Some men say an army of horse and some men say an arm on foot / and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing / on the black earth. But I say it is / what you love.”
“As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.”
“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.”
“Men always say I LOVE YOU as a QUESTION”
“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”