"What do you _think_ about me ?" "I think you have had a hard time," Katie murmured, thinking to herself that one must have had hard time-- "And what's that to you?
Why's that your affair ?" "It's not exactly my affair, to be sure," Katie admitted; "except that we seem to have been--thrown together, and, as I said, there's something about you that I've--taken a fancy to." It drew her, but she beat it back.

Resistance made her face the more stern as she went on: "Do you think I'm going to impose on you--just because you know so little?
Why with all your cleverness, you're just a baby--when it comes to life! Shall I tell you what life is like ?" Her gaze narrowed and grew hard.

"Life is everybody fighting for something--and knocking down everybody in their way.

Life is people who are strong kicking people who are weak out of their road--then going on with a laugh--a laugh loud enough to drown the groans.

Life is lying and scheming to get what you want.