Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.