Quotes by Scott

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.””

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.””

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.””

“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.””

“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.””

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.””

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.””

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.””

“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 eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.””

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.””

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!””

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.””

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.””