"It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native …"

"This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothi…"

"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very …"

"I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land."

"Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, …"

"Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them."

"She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in …"

"I want—I want—I want—was all that she could think about—but just what this real want was she did not know."

"Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness."

"It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and so…"