F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via flowersforbones)
(via man-of-prose)
The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Three Gables (via man-of-prose)
(Fonte: thenorwoodbuilder, via man-of-prose)
You remember him as he was – debonair and splendid. You did not see the moody, morose, brooding creature into which he developed. His heart was broken. In a single month I seemed to see my gallant boy turn into a worn-out cynical man.”
“A love affair – a woman?
