Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be…

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

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

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

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is a series of successful gestures...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“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