Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is — utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative.