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

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.