Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight
You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.