“She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”
"The years that are gone seem like dreams if one might go on sleeping and dreaming but to wake up.Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.”
"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
“Perhaps no one thing in this world is more difficult than to make one's own way.”
“She was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment.”
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”