“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I’m more beautiful than anybody else,” she said brokenly, “why can’t I be happy?” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“there's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--" a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She would be twenty-nine in February. The month assumed an ominous and inescapable significance—making her wonder, through these nebulous half-fevered hours whether… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful… — 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
“You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is-- utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — 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 into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
