Literary Quotes

. . . still a little dizzy from that discovery of sheer beauty which comes to the most prosaic men once in a while.

Let tomorrow look after itself. He still had today.

The weather, usually a sorry jade to those who count upon her, was kindly disposed towards Edward. She gave him the day of his dreams, a day of glittering frost, and pale-blue sky, and and a primrose-yellow sun.

It stood to him for Romance, for Adventure, for all the things that he had longed for and had never had.

'If I were rich, I'd have you.' And now he was—if not rich—at least possessed of a lump sum of money sufficient to realize his dream . . . that shining, alluring piece of loveliness, was his if he cared to pay the price.

Was there such a thing as a world of romance and adventure somewhere? . . . Was there such a thing as love that devoured one like a flame?

With a deep sigh she yielded her lips in such a kiss as he had never dreamed of—

'I fail to understand the question,' he said coldly, speaking as much like the hero of a novel as he could.

'I can't tell you how pleased I am to be mixed up in a real mystery—I didn't know there were such things.'

'Just like one of those books that keep you up all night. The heroine always says "I can't explain" in the first chapter. She explains in the last, of course, and there's never any real reason why she shouldn't have done so in the beginning—except that it would spoil the story.'

It is undoubtedly pleasant to have the loveliest girl you have ever seen gazing into your eyes and telling you how splendid you are.

'He's been kind to me—nobody knows how kind.'

Had he taken an active part in any tragedy there might have been?

But a very definite uneasiness assailed her. Afterwards she dated her first suspicions from that moment.

'But there's something in the air, some atmosphere that one doesn't quite understand.'

'You know there's something queer about this house altogether, something uncanny and haunting.'

'It was made for her! She belongs to it in an extraordinary way.'