It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

that voice was a deathless song.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!