Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand