I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary: "The whole point of the trilogy is the all-pervasion of the political scene. Sara wants to rise in society and find a secure home but her appetite for life causes her to lose her bourgeois home and status. Amanda is 32 an introspective and bookish woman; her aunts are determined to see her married though each has a different candidate for husband.

Joyce Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary December 7 1888 – March 29 1957) was an Anglo-Irishnovelist and artist.