They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

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