Tara

“Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

“Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.”
― Willa Cather, One of Ours

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence