Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.