It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.