"It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people."
"Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery."
"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
"I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life."
"no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story."
"Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want."
"My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male."
"Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows."
"She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."