Guy

“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a memory of a curve of her shoulder, naked, as he had never seen it.”
― Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being good it would do nobody any harm if they learned to be a little bad - that is to say, burn down their houses, give away their children, put their husband in prison, steal his money and turn themselves into their husband's mistress.”
― Fay Weldon

“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss”
― Louis Auchincloss