You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

“After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable c…”

“I don't want to sound like Pollyanna," she began, "but you haven't grasped me y…”

“But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. …”

“Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glo…”