Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He seduces her because she is slipping away - she lets herself be seduced because of overwhelming admiration. Once settled, it is… — 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
“He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips, and felt that he had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was the starlight set upon the brilliant darkness; and there were her pale cool cheeks, and he let himself be lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.” — 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
I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I went in - after making every possible noise in the kitchen, short of pushing over the stove - but I don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But Amory, being on the spot, leaned over quickly and kissed Myra’s cheek. He had never kissed a girl before, and he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport.I even hoped for a while… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Then for a moment they faded into the sweet darkness so deep that they were darker than the darkness, so that for… — 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
