She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.