Alani Gauthier

Mr. Williams
H American Lit
9 February 2015
The Beautiful and Damned
Important Quotes

Things are sweeter when theyre lost. I knowbecause once I wanted something and got it. It
was the only thing I ever wanted, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
-Anthony

I dont want just words. If thats all you have for me youd better go.
-Gloria

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be
either his wife or his mistress.
-Gloria

Unloved women have no biographiesthey have histories.

-Anthony

All I think of ever is that I love you

-Gloria

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
-Anthony

Youll forget. Things are sweeter when theyre lost. I knowbecause once I wanted something
and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it turned to dust in my
hands.
-Anthony

This is all. Its been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldnt
doand wouldnt last.
-Anthony

Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?

-Dot

Dot, he whispered uncomfortably, youll forget. Things are sweeter when theyre lost. I know
because once I wanted something and got it.
-Anthony

She wanted what most women want, but she wanted it much fiercely and passionately.
-Anthony

If you hated me, if you were covered with sores like a leper, if you ran away with another
woman or starved me or beat me- how absurd this soundsId still want you, Id still love you. I
know, my darling.
-Gloria

These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love
with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyze me and tell me Im
this because of this or that because of that.
-Gloria

Dear little Dot, life is so damned hard. She was crying upon his shoulder. So damned hard, so
damned hard, he repeated aimlessly; It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts
them so that they cant be hurt ever any more. Thats the last and worst thing it does.
-Anthony