It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.