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...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

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There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to...more

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She had resolved to never take another step backward.

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

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She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some p...more

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I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

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The morning was full of sunlight and hope.