"An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to X…"

"Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on hi…"

"I am no good and I cannot help myself. It will be right if you hate me. You should beat me. But inside me there is so…"

"Out of your feeling and out of your pain it must come. Others have found it. You can too. But first you must think an…"

"Hoopvlei was another of the white man's ventures to get the natives and coloreds out of the towns. The natives did no…"

"No! I don't want you to touch me."

"He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget…"

"He sat on the bed and held his head in his hands. Eliza had gone out with that sickly monkey dressed in the clothes o…"

"Johannes drunk and Johannes sober were two different people."

"A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they…"