The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.