The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

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.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Language is the only homeland.

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.