God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it! - Robertson Davies

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog’s life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things — the job, the house, the this, the that — do not really fill the place inside.