A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor