Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.