The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.
It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.