“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.”

“When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.”

“He said, that he never had feared what man could do to him, but always had feared Fortune, the most fickle and variable of all deities; and in the late war she had been so constantly present with him, like a favouring gale, that he expected now to meet with some reverse by way of retribution.”

““Oh,” said Brunilla, the cow-searcher. “A man with wings.”
That was how she took it. She was startled, yes, but she had never been hurt in her life, so she wasn’t afraid of anyone, and it was a fancy thing to see a winged man and she was proud to meet him.”

“As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!”

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else…”