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"There was something frightening about the aspect of old friends, old lovers, who had, misteriously, come to nothing."

"You can't forget anything that hurt so badly, went so deep, and changed the world forever. It's not possible to forget anybody you've destroyed."

"He gave her some money for the fare, looking at her with something, after all these months, explicit at last between them. They both loved Rufus. And they were both white. Now that it stared them so hideously in the face, each could see how desperately the other had been trying to avoid this confirmation."

"It scarcely seemed possible- it scarcely, even, seemed fair- that coloured boys who were beaten up in highschool could grow up into coloured men who wanted to beat everyone in sight, including, or perhaps especially, people who had never, one way or another, given them a thought."

"Something women have dreamed up. But I can't say that- what men have dreamed up is all there is, the world they've dreamed up is the world."

"But they didn't, happen to you because you were white. They just happened. But what happens up here- happens because they are coloured. And that makes a difference."

"If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad."

"For a moment she hated his youth, his expectations, possibilities, she hated his masculinity."