the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

It takes two to make an accident.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.