Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.