"When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse."
"To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untraveled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing."
"[She] shook her head. Like all women; she was there to object and be convinced. It was for him to brush the doubts away and clear the path if he could."
"She saw what [he] liked; in a vague way she saw where he was weak. It lessens a woman's opinion of a man when she learns that his admiration is so pointedly and generously distributed. She sees but one object of supreme compliment in this world, and that is herself. If a man is to succeed with many women, he must be all in all to each."
"She was no talker. She could never arrange her thoughts in fluent order. It was a matter of feeling with her, strong and deep."
"...He began writing her regularly-a letter every morning, and begging her to do as much for him. He was not literary by any means, but experience of the world and his growing affection gave him somewhat of a style...[He] surprised himself with his fluency. By the natural law which governs all effort, what he wrote affected upon him..."
"She increased in value in his eyes because of her objection. She was something to struggle for, and that was everything."
-Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
. . . and this is only page 132 of 400 which I can't seem to force myself to read.
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