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

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.