When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens. - Theodore Dreiser

Значение внешних и внутренних перемен, которые порою совершаются в нашей жизни, не всегда сразу нам ясно. Мы потрясены, испуганы - а потом как будто возвращаемся к прежнему существованию, но перемена уже совершилась. Никогда и нигде мы уже не будем прежними.

Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing

I was in Chicago before I came here, but I didn’t do so very much dancing. I had to work.” He was thinking how such girls as she had everything, as contrasted with girls like Roberta, who had nothing. And yet, as he now felt in this instance, he liked Roberta better. She was sweeter and warmer and kinder — not so cold.