Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

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

No one should live beyond 30.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

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.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

It's a mining town in lotus land.