there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.