“But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...”

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”

“The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.”

“Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman." She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.”

“...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”

“She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.”