She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Never mistake motive for action.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.