Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

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

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.