You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.