I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it some time. Try and take it.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.

He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.

Nimeni n-ar trebui să rămână singur când îmbătrânește.

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

Kui kergeks küll muutub süda, kui tead, et kõik on läbi, kui tead, et oled võidetud.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev

Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.