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Love Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

175 Love quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about fierce passion and jealousy that can feel like a payment for loss. He also paints a protective embrace, arms wrapped tightly as if nothing could escape. His words use vivid, magical images like pink palms that glow like a child's flushed cheeks.

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Kiss me now, love me now.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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“My hair-- bob it!”

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“I’m yours — you know it.”

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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Englishmen must have an island.

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“But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...”

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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I want to do everything in the world with you.

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“The price for his intactness was incompleteness.”

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But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

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“You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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“the heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight,...”

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

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“Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.”

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“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another”

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing…

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A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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“He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her.…

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“He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would…

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“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a…

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“was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it…

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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might…

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that…

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“What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal,…

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“If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I…

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet,…

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“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become…

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When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he…

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“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of…

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“She looked up at him as he took a step toward the door; she looked at him without the slightest idea as…

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“Then for a moment they faded into the sweet darkness so deep that they were darker than the darkness, so that for…

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“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport.I even hoped for a while…

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“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing…

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“Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.”

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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…

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