“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
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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
“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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