The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Writing has freed me from the despair of living.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.