It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"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 romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."

"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."

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