There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself