Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.