I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.