Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.