We don't stop loving someone, we simply learn to live without them.

The older you get, the more you realise that certain people should be around you for life, while others should just make an appearance.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are".

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.