the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

She knew few words and believed in none.

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

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.