How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"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 are the candy." (2.5.39)
Amory is not a sentimentalist. He's not interested in returning to his childhood. He doesn't want to have an uneaten plate of candy in front of him… he wants to be eating. He wants everything he learns to be as new and as exciting as it was when he first learned it.