Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

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.