Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

“God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me…”

“You and I have been happy; we haven't been happy just once, we've been happy a …”

“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more …”

“All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slo…”