Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.