I am in limbo, there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point. (Chapter 1 paragraph Page 28)

For the first time since they met, she feels alienated from Joe. All the while she ate and drank and talked smoothly, inconsequentially, the feeling that there was something very wrong between them grew and grew, until there was a wall up. (Chapter 3 paragraph Page 114)

Well there’s them…and I think it was a mistake I brought them…but how can I send them away now? But my family is gone. I am alone. Why did I lose my temper that night and wound everybody with words and memories? (Chapter 4 paragraph Page 167)

What would it feel like, to want to be priest, to want to be teacher, to want to be husband and father of a family, and be thwarted in them all? How would it feel to... (Chapter 5 paragraph Page 231)