She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so much determined to embrace everything that she fails.

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”

“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, f…”

“Little animal that I am, sucking my flanks in and out with fear, I stand here, …”