They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

She considered herself unconventional.