I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
We all have souls of different ages.