"Is she the only anchor you have ?" "Plank, I am not even sure of her.

I have made a better fight since then; that is all I dare say.

I know what men think about a man like me; I knew they demand character, pride, self-denial.

But, Plank, I am driving faster and faster toward the breakers, and these anchors are dragging.

For it is not, in my case, the physical failure to obey the will; it is the will itself that has been attacked from the first.
That is the horror of it.