"Tipping the Velvet" Quotes

I might have been a little in love with her myself.

It would be a wonderful thing, I thought, to be loved by her.

I had craved womanhood, and I had been given it.

But I had begun to learn that it was only when you were in love that it was at all easy to be unselfish.

In the meantime, I was to forget myself for the first time; to forget that I was young, to forget that I was a girl.

I thought I was in love with her; but it was nothing to this.

I had fallen in love with a girl, and so I took a man.

I was in love, and I was afraid; two states of mind that were not, I now saw, compatible.

I was in the centre of the world; the centre of the world was wherever she was.

I wasn't sure what I was doing. But I was sure of her.