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

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.