Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.