Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.” “It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!” “But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. I can't make it more clear it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.” “I would give up the unessential I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children but I wouldnt give myself.
That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” “He could see plainly that she was not herself. “There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.” “She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.” “but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.” It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. “The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle.
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
“The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies” The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. “I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”