The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go