I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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

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.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand