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The Basil and Josephine Stories QUOTES

The Basil and Josephine Stories QUOTES

1 " She was ashamed not only of her situation but of her reaction to it. She had never felt any pity for the unpopular girls who skulked in dressing-rooms because they could attract no partners on the floor, or for girls who were outsiders at Lake Forest, and now she was like them--hiding miserably out of life. Alarmed lest already the change was written in her face, she paused in front of the mirror, fascinated as ever by what she found there. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Basil and Josephine Stories

2 " Basil, is that you?"
"No, mother, it's a burglar. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Basil and Josephine Stories

3 " She hurried into a new spring evening dress of the frailest fairy blue. In the excitement of seeing herself in it, it seemed as if she had shed the old skin of winter and emerged a shining chrysalis with no stain; and going downstairs her feet fell softly just off the beat of the music from below. It was a tune from a play she had seen a week ago in New York, a tune with a future... "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Basil and Josephine Stories

4 " It was the best hour of the day now and Basil was terribly happy. This summer he and his mother and sister were going to the lakes and next fall he was starting away to school. Then he would go to Yale and be a great athlete, and after that-- if his two dreams had fitted onto each other chronologically instead of existing independently side by side-- he was due to become a gentleman burglar. Everything was fine. He had so many alluring things to think about that it was hard to fall asleep at night. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Basil and Josephine Stories

5 " Through sheer ineptitude at escaping, they were edged into the room. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Basil and Josephine Stories