...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.