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"Helga did not hate him, the town, or the people. No. Not for a long time."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.

"Glad though the Dahls may have been that their niece had had the chance of refusing the hand of Axel Olsen, they were anything but glad that she had taken that chance."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.

"Well into Helga’s second year in Denmark came an indefinite discontent. Not clear, but vague, like a storm gathering far on the horizon. It was long before she would admit that she was less happy than she had been during her first year in Copenhagen, but she knew that it was so."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.

"With the waning summer the acute sensitiveness of Helga Crane’s frayed nerves grew keener. There were days when the mere sight of the serene tan and brown faces about her stung her like a personal insult."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.

"Having finally turned her attention to Helga Crane, Fortune now seemed determined to smile, to make amends for her shameful neglect. One had, Helga decided, only to touch the right button, to press the right spring, in order to attract the jade’s notice."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.

"She woke in the morning unrefreshed and with that feeling of half-terrified apprehension peculiar to Christmas and birthday mornings."

-Larsen, Nella. Quicksand.