I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been st…”

“Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.”

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my…”

“he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I…”