Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

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

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.