When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

I want to be silverly beautiful.