Alice Adams Quotes by Booth Tarkington

"You tell him I got kind of a notion he was pushed into this thing by circumstances, and tell him I've lived long enough to know that circumstances can beat the best of us." ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington "We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get TO them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on." ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved; conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them. ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington