The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.