"The Beautiful and Damned" Quotes

I’m not sure I want to be married, but I am sure I want to be divorced.

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

I want to have a sentimental understanding of the world. I want to be in love with my own life and with the world.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I’m glad I’m not a woman, they always worry about things that don’t matter.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.

I might have been a saint, but I will never be a martyr.

I’m not a great theologian, but I refuse to believe that all this grace is intended to go to the devil.