isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.