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

“Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a …”

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit…”

“interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has …”

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each …”