“There are certainly moments,” said Chad, “when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true,” he added, “that seems to be all that need concern me.”
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It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course–with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here–to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.