Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
May SartonSo this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
May SartonHe [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
May SartonFor of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
May Sarton