You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..”

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actu…”

“we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in…”

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn'…”