“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play.”

“I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.”

“Their entire work as household “supervisor” is pasken. This is possible for in this area she knows something: no one else can represent her and therefore she had the chance to demonstrate in practice that she can summon the requisite understanding and seriousness for such matters.”

“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”

“She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“Perhaps the heart does not deceive; never does give a false answer, except to those double-minded unhappy ones who do care about themselves, and so play tricks with it and tamper with it.”