" Later, when she examined her feeling of annoyance, Irene admitted, a shade reluctantly, that it arose from a feeling of being outnumbered, a sense of aloneness, in her adherence to her own class and kind; not merely in the great thing of marriage, but in the whole pattern of her life as well. "

― Nella Larsen , The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories