For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — 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
Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to… — 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
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
But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle… — 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
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;… — 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