Different people's accounts of a few moments of stress never agree." ~Craddock (chapter 6)

'At her age one does not have birthdays. It is better to forget.' Mitzi chapter 15
Only—sometimes—the most amazing impersonations did happen. chapter 17
 
You could get away with a great deal if you had enough audacity...chapter 17

'I've heard people say so often, 'I'd rather have flowers on the table than a meal without them.' But how many meals have those people ever missed? They don't know what it is—nobody knows who hasn't been through it—to be really hungry." ~Bunny

It's the rent—always the rent—that's got to be paid—otherwise you're out in the street. And in these days it leaves so little over. ~Bunny

People in the dark are quite different, aren't they?" ~ Mrs. Harmon (chapter 7)

"The comfortably off do...