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.

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

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.

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

The brief silence that follows is as tender as arainstorm of daisies.

Power lasts ten years

If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.

You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load.

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.