All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.