And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed.

The sentimental songs she sang in music class were all about little angels with golden wings, madonnas, lagoons, gondoliers -- mawkish compositions that allowe…

It seemed to her that certain portions of the earth must produce happiness -- as thought it were a plant native only to those soils and doomed to languish else…

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from…

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most …

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise-when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.