Quotes

I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. ~ The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. ~ The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen "Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone," said Anne, shuddering. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery