the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.