“Every place there's people, there's badness.”

“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”

“There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”