“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”

“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”

“I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.”

“I loved him and I would love him until every fibre in my body was gone and had turned to dust, but even when my bones had joined the earth, the memory of our love would live on beyond the ages.”

“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”

“I had never considered myself to be multi-orgasmic, but Sabian either assumed I was or decided I would be.”