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.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.