interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.