- “To be in New York on a beautiful day is to feel razor-close to being in love.”
- "I could see the stars there so brightly I felt I was sailing among them."
- "tight, confining clothes and small talk . . . are to the soul what acid is to metal . . . ."
- "Her heart rose with the changes of color and form with each new view down long, sea-horizoned avenues glittering with sun on glass, or in the narrow blocks choked with green, and with the precise and astounding choreography of the scores of thousands who moved with quick step interweaving and never colliding."
- "With nothing guaranteed but the present, [the future] expanded and intensified, as if a balance of force were faithfully maintained, until the cold rain became a shower of stars."
- "To settle in at East Hampton without looking at the ocean, even at night, was the sign of a crippled soul."
- "...irony is only a term for a cowardly mocking of someone else's true conviction."
- "A Protestant cross ... was hanging on an interior wall facing two large windows filled with the sun, which would soon climb above the clouds and spend the day diffused as if by cotton, but now was like a dam-burst of white gold."
- "In winter, memorable weather came from the north with sterilizing clarity and immersed the whole world in a sea of shining glass."
- "There are some days at the end of summer, after the heat has broken and everything is dry and gleaming, when the crickets sound as metallic as bells."
- "Here were books that had not been opened in a hundred years and yet had not died and would not die even if no one would ever open them again. How such life is impressed forever upon time Catherine did not know, but she felt strongly that nothing was ever lost, that the world was so full of faint echoes that the air was almost solid."
- "With his diploma in hand and his robe open to the breeze, he remained as the thunderous bustle came to an end and groups broke up and disappeared like ice melting in a stream, until he himself was the very last straggler."
- "If you know what you love, you know who you are."
- "She felt thrown back in time as surely as if someone had lifted a tone arm in the midst of a song and set it upon the smooth and soundless rim of the record. Though she had great affection for times past, to relive them would be the saddest thing, if only because she would know exactly the way they would end."
oct 15 2013 ∞
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