Women

When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

The best ones usually have the worst time of it.

... a woman’s body is like a violin <...> it takes a terrific musician to play it right.

A woman accentuates her beauty for her own self-esteem

"I ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day.
"One never ought to listen to the flowers.
One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
Mine perfumed all my planet.
But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."
And he continued his confidences:
"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything!
I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words.
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me.
I ought never to have run away from her...
I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems.
Flowers are so inconsistent!
But I was too young to know how to love her …"