At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.