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

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.