«Volia estar sola, però no sentir-s’hi.»
«She wanted to be alone, but not lonely.»
«No hem de mirar de fer res. Ens hem de limitar a ser.»
«You don’t try to be, or do. You simply are.»
«No hi havia res que l’avorrís tant com la gent que tenia pretensions de ser original, la gent que se li acostava, l’arraconava i la tenia allà esperant mentre deien originalitats.»
«Nothing bored her so much as people who insisted on being original, who came and buttonholed her and kept her waiting while they were being original.»
El Sentit de la Paraula 