“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”

“She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.”

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

“She prays to God most every night
And though she swears he doesn't listen there's a little hope in her he might.”

“I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion — then she lies.”

“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

“You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'
She shook her head. […] 'What they do is their nature,' she said.”

“I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.”

“I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”