People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.