The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a smile of warmth and delight — a smile that said, I'm yours for the asking; I'm won. It was not a smile that undervalued herself, because through its beauty it spoke for both of them, expressed all the potential joy that existed between them.

If the bonus army conquered Washington the lawyer had a boat hidden in the Sacramento River, and he was going to row upstream for a few months and then come back because they always needed lawyers after a revolution to straighten out all the legal side.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.