They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"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."

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

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

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

"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."