The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Life cracked like ice!