I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.