“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Their cool cheeks and warm lips met in the crisp darkness, and, watching the icy moon over his shoulder, Annie knew that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts were frosty mist along the eaves; our two ghosts kissed, high on the long, mazed wires - eerie half-laughter echoes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He fought with a desire to kiss her again, even tenderly, and began to tell her that she was being unwise, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She looked up at him as he took a step toward the door; she looked at him without the slightest idea as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Only the image of a third person, even a vanished one, entering into his relation with Rosemary was needed to throw him… — 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
And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Life opened up in one if its amazing bursts of radiance and Amory suddenly and permanently rejected an old epigram that had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — 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
