People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
Kiss me now, love me now.
Dear, don’t think of getting out of bed yet. I’ve always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
I’m merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
All I think of ever is that I love you.
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
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.