“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“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.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
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“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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