but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.