If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.