If the car was any indication of what John would see, he was prepared to be astonished indeed.
"That's nothing at all. My father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
"How pleasant then to be insane!"
is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future—flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.
By the end of a fortnight
"It was a dream," said John quietly. "Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness
She was much more than that to John already
She was much more than that to John already
He was critical about women. A single defect—a thick ankle, a hoarse voice, a glass eye—was enough to make him utterly indifferent.
Nothing would suit them but that he should go to St. Midas's School near Boston—Hades was too small to hold their darling and gif
