When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.