She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that, lost in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He saw Kathleen sitting in the middle of a long white table alone.Immediately things changed. As he walked toward her the people… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She knew what he wanted, and gave it to him; not words, but a smile of warmth and delight — a smile… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a 'nice' girl could be.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
