F Cats

“Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.”
― Alfred Hayes, In Love

“I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.”
― Henry Green

“Yes, the man said, I've often wondered why I impress people as being altogether sad, and yet I insist I am not sad, and that they are quite wrong about me, and yet when I look in the mirror it turns out to be something really true, my face is sad, my face is actually sad, I become convinced (and he smiled at her, because it was four o'clock, and the day was ending and she was a very pretty girl, it was astonishing how gradually she had become prettier) that they are right after all, and I am sad, sadder than I know.”
― Alfred Hayes, In Love

“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.”
― Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories