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"Gay's never approved of me. But she's always loved me. The two things don't have as much to do with one another as some people think."
"now that I am older my face has grown up to its bones"
"I am superstitious. It's my belief that everybody is, but if you don't admit it, you can't take advantage."
"I haven't been in love with Len for a long time, although I like him with all my heart. But there was a time when one of those grey glances would turn my day upside down. It wasn't love, of course, but one of those overwrought, star-cross't attractions like that of Romeo and Juliet, who weren't old enough to love, either. How can you love anyone you don't know? At that age you have barely made acquaintance with yourself."
"He was a hulking, friendly lout who was on the football team and Doris was small; he always looked way down at her as if she were something precious."
"like any proper poet I had from time to time been in love with easeful death"
"I am a person who believes not only that you can change the future but, to some extent, the past. If you elect to wipe out what has happened, pay it no mind, give it no room in your consciousness--why then, it didn't happen."
"Gay's grandmother was a formidable woman, but you didn't see it right away because she was pretty."
"But that morning, in that wild wonderful library, I felt that I had met my Leader."
"What boy? she said. "I've known so many boys."
"Maybe it was the burden of old disasters."
"Everyone in that house liked to read; not that they were all scholars; they just liked to read, and there was no corner of that big house that was not littered with literature, as though they were all afraid that they might be caught at any moment without print."
"To Gay love was becoming someone else; alas, that does not happen."
"There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old lovers."
"I hadn't discovered yet that there are many people who don't write books and are not impressed by those who do. I know better now. There are even those who don't read them."
"It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read."
"But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask."
"She'd always wanted to be the life of the party, but she was only asked to the party just that once."
"On with the dance. Let joy be unconfined."
"The young aren't cruel. They just don't know anything."
"They both survived their first and savage loves, and now we can all be quiet and hold hands."
"When you have been friends for a long, long time, it is not always easy to distinguish what you have seen for yourself from what the other has told you."
"After small furors, one does like to depart with dignity."
"But useful as my flask is, it is not ideal for us gin drinkers. Warm gin, even laced with warm vermouth, is honestly not very palatable. So whiskey it has to be, no matter what went before it or what will follow."
"I shut my eyes against the blinking of the neon tubes and told myself that if the other cab came before I had counted fifteen, the evening would still end well. I often do this. If this happens, that will follow. It often works out this way. Try it and see."
"She was a slim little thing who burned like a flame."
"If you ask me, there's a lot too much loose talk about sincerity. I go for deference and courtesy and girls who know how to get in and out of rooms."
"now that I am older my face has grown up to its bones"
"I am superstitious. It's my belief that everybody is, but if you don't admit it, you can't take advantage."
"I haven't been in love with Len for a long time, although I like him with all my heart. But there was a time when one of those grey glances would turn my day upside down. It wasn't love, of course, but one of those overwrought, star-cross't attractions like that of Romeo and Juliet, who weren't old enough to love, either. How can you love anyone you don't know? At that age you have barely made acquaintance with yourself."
"He was a hulking, friendly lout who was on the football team and Doris was small; he always looked way down at her as if she were something precious."
"like any proper poet I had from time to time been in love with easeful death"
"I am a person who believes not only that you can change the future but, to some extent, the past. If you elect to wipe out what has happened, pay it no mind, give it no room in your consciousness--why then, it didn't happen."
"Gay's grandmother was a formidable woman, but you didn't see it right away because she was pretty."
"But that morning, in that wild wonderful library, I felt that I had met my Leader."
"What boy? she said. "I've known so many boys."
"Maybe it was the burden of old disasters."
"Everyone in that house liked to read; not that they were all scholars; they just liked to read, and there was no corner of that big house that was not littered with literature, as though they were all afraid that they might be caught at any moment without print."
"To Gay love was becoming someone else; alas, that does not happen."
"There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old lovers."
"I hadn't discovered yet that there are many people who don't write books and are not impressed by those who do. I know better now. There are even those who don't read them."
"It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read."
"But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask."
"She'd always wanted to be the life of the party, but she was only asked to the party just that once."
"On with the dance. Let joy be unconfined."
"The young aren't cruel. They just don't know anything."
"They both survived their first and savage loves, and now we can all be quiet and hold hands."
"When you have been friends for a long, long time, it is not always easy to distinguish what you have seen for yourself from what the other has told you."
"After small furors, one does like to depart with dignity."
"But useful as my flask is, it is not ideal for us gin drinkers. Warm gin, even laced with warm vermouth, is honestly not very palatable. So whiskey it has to be, no matter what went before it or what will follow."
"I shut my eyes against the blinking of the neon tubes and told myself that if the other cab came before I had counted fifteen, the evening would still end well. I often do this. If this happens, that will follow. It often works out this way. Try it and see."
"She was a slim little thing who burned like a flame."
"If you ask me, there's a lot too much loose talk about sincerity. I go for deference and courtesy and girls who know how to get in and out of rooms."
