The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.