I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.