The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.