No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.