Quotes from book

This Side of Paradise

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”

“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”

“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

“my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.”

“he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.”

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”

“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

“I'm a cynical idealist.”