I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.