“Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.”

“Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.”

“The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best.”

“Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.”

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

“Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer”

“A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.”