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Monsignor Darcy quotes
A character in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 quotes spoken by or about Monsignor Darcy, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not
at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M.
Don’t worry about that; for you not posing may be the biggest pose of all.
No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
Don’t let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself
Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.
The Friday Letter
One story from the atlas, every Friday.
No algorithms chasing attention. A work, a place, and the connection between them — with the history checked.
