“the heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight,...” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Apoi o saruta.La atingerea buzelor lui,Daisy se deschise ca o floare,iar intruchiparea se desavarsi.” — 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
“He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her.… — 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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What must love itself in its fullness, its perfection be. He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it… — 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
“See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The breathless idyl of their engagement gave way, first, to the intense romance of the more passionate relationship. The breathless idyl left… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She was a thin, a thin burning flame, colorless yet fresh. Her smile came first slowly, shy and bold, as if all… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now-isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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
“I love you. Do you hear? I’m telling you all of a sudden, but it isn’t new with me. I love you.” — 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
“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. — 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
“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
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
“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“They had senselessly begun to abuse each other’s love, tear it into shreds.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid I’m in love with you and that’s not the best thing that could happen.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! — 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
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before… — 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
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image