“I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
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