“Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“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
“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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