“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“Human sympathy has its limits.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the s...”

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”