Toy çağımda bir öğüt vermişti babam, hâlâ küpedir kulağıma. 'Ne zaman' demişti, birini eleştirecek, yargılayacak olsan, hatırdan çıkarma, herkes senin imkanlarında gelmemiştir dünyaya!
She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"...He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So, he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lip's touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete".
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately- and the decision must be made by some force – of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality – that was close at hand".