“Now was not the time to be sentimental. As a child, she'd been ridiculously sentimental about loss, about time passing.”
“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”
“His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they weren't good memories. That was the trouble.”
“People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.”
“If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”
“What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”