So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night