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

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

The rich are different from us.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.