

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”
― Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
― Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness.
But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
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