Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.