He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.
Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!
The rich get richer and the poor get – children.
Stahr’s eyes and Kathleen’s met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.
If you’re in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
She knew few words and believed in none.
I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.
He felt married to her, that was all.
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
Everything that begins, begins with blood.
There’s a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you’ve made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don’t suppose I can stop you, but I really don’t think it’s very considerate.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.