You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
The privacy to make a scene was something she would miss in Utopia … [N]ow, surrounded by these watchers, she felt deprived of a basic right … [to] behave badly if necessary, until [Preston] responded...
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.
The happy ending is our national belief.
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
I mean exactly that, Mr. Davison retorted. You’ve hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position—he turned to Kay—have ‘privilege.’ That’s what I read in the Na...
All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn’t express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men’s words.
But this poor chap is a dangerous neurotic. Polly laughed. So you saw that, Father. I never could. He always seemed so normal. It’s the same thing, said her father, putting the groceries away. All neu...
Boredom and urban cynicism had become so natural to them that an experience from which these qualities were absent seemed to be, in some way, defective.
He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.
He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.
He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
Independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience.
I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a...
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