Nella Larsen

“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.”

“What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?”

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.”

“Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it”

“It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.”