If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
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 to-night.
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.
Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me."Horace stopped quickly in front of her."Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round...
The best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that thing...
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart.
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? cried Daisy, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?