Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg. - Sherwood Anderson

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

"I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get."