Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self. - John Galsworthy

This girl is the daughter of the man who once owned Jon’s mother as a negro-slave was owned. You can’t lay that ghost; don’t try to, June! It’s asking us to see Jon joined to the flesh and blood of the man who possessed Jon’s mother against her will.

Zilele de naştere sunt - ca şi sărbătorile Crăciunului - pline de decepţii. O veselie artificială, confecţionată din vreme, un revolver la tâmplă, cu îndemnul: Dezlănţuie-te! Bucură-te!

Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men — all this was precious to her beyond everything.