The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.