Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.