Nella Larsen Quotes

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

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

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Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

that’s what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

New York’s the lonesomest place in the world if you don’t know anybody.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn’t, they couldn’t endure.

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