I wanted to be a regular human being but the girl couldn't see it that way." "You'll find another." "God! Banish the thought.

Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'?
No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

If I thought there'd be another I'd lose my remaining faith in human nature.

Maybe I'll play--but Rosalind was the only girl in the wide world that could have held me." "Well," yawned Tom, "I've played confidant a good hour by the clock.
Still, I'm glad to see you're beginning to have violent views again on something." "I am," agreed Amory reluctantly.

"Yet when I see a happy family it makes me sick at my stomach--" "Happy families try to make people feel that way," said Tom cynically.
***** TOM THE CENSOR There were days when Amory listened.