He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

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

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

that voice was a deathless song.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.