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

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.