After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.