"I knew she had eaten my father, and I was glad I did not have to fight any longer to keep her from eating me. Oh, the…"

"Then I was in love with herself after all, said Diana, making one of those feminine leaps in logic that leave men bre…"

"Not that any of the women spoke; they had done their speaking before church, and their husbands knew the price of peace."

"I promised that this would be a frank record, so far as I can write one, and God forbid that I should pretend that th…"

"If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get."

"A fool-saint is somebody who seems to be full of holiness and loves everybody and does every good act he can, but bec…"

"He let me know that he had been led into his marriage by love, and love alone; though he did not say so it was clear …"

"Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a seriou…"

"These petitioners had no conception of art; to them a picture was a symbol of something else, and very readily the sy…"

"I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two, sid…"