She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

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.

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.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.