“youre beautiful', he said without grandiloquence. 'that's the least of it', she replied politely.”

“What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.”

“French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.”

“I'm beneath no man!" she replies harshly. Then, with a mischievous quirk to her mouth, she adds, "At least not without dinner and a drink first.”

“God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.''No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.”

“I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said.“Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied.“Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.”

“He's teaching her arithmetic,He said it was his mission,He kissed her once and said,"Now that's addition."And as he added smack by smackIn silent satisfaction,She sweetly gave the kisses back and said,"Now that's subtraction."Then he kissed her, she kissed him,Without an explanation,And both together smiled and said,"That's multiplication."Then Dad appeared upon the scene andMade a quick decision.He kicked that kid three blocks away And said, "That's long division!”