“no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I’m inclined to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made… — 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