“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
― 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
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