You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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