“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

“Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.”

“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”

“Pride would never be her ally.”

“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”

“Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”

“Thats love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”