I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.