"All things considered--maybe I was just a woman in love with a surfboard."

"He gave this a moment of thought."Then he said, 'In love--I don't think I am. But I do like Franzie. I liked her from…"

"My friend the great Kahoona once told me that the sea is where we came in, and the sea is where we go out. We have cr…"

"All the short years of my life I have been fascinated by the word 'affair.'It sounds so decadent.And when I say short…"

"If you want to believe the Arabs, there are three things you can't hide: love, smoke and a man riding on the back of …"

"Amore, I said to myself, if it is good--it is very good. And if it is bad--well--it isn't that bad."

"The bluebird of happiness had come home to roost. If this isn't heaven, I thought, lingering in his sweet embrace, I …"

"Everything was about to begin."I felt ridiculously young."I had groups and groups of time left."Zut alors, so free an…"

"Life, I think, is wonderful, but people are hell."

"I'm writing this down because I once heard that when you're getting older you're liable to forget things and I'd sure…"