This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.