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

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.