I was insincere thinking I regretted my lost youth when I only envy the delights of losing it. Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again […]. I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again
—Armory Beatrice, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I LOVE this little passage because I believe it’s so true. This Side of Paradise is such a good book.
