He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.