Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.

“I hate the small looking-glass on the stairs," said Jinny. "It shows our heads …”

“The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiatedfaces, this way and tha…”

“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is …”

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction tha…”