Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.