How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
mariansalomonhas quoted7 years ago
However much his wild thoughts varied between a passionate desire for her kisses and an equally passionate craving to hurt and mar her, the residue of his mind craved in finer fashion to possess the triumphant soul that had shone through those three minutes.
mariansalomonhas quoted7 years ago
"This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do—and wouldn't last."
mariansalomonhas quoted7 years ago
She was deeply herself
mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.
mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
But I never want to change people or get excited over them.
mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
Maury gazed helplessly into space. "Well, I can't describe her exactly—except to say that she was beautiful. She was—tremendously alive. She was eating gum-drops.
mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
wedded to a vague melancholy that was to stay beside him through the rest of his life.
София Техажеваhas quoted8 years ago
forgotten her vividness of emotion, which is true forgetting.
b6221027333has quoted2 months ago
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal