All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.