It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.