Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.