“a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear. — 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
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in… — 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
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were… — 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
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had… — 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
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living… — 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