To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

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

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

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.