“He was remembering too vividly the youth and freshness of her lips.” — 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
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning. — 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
“Apoi o saruta.La atingerea buzelor lui,Daisy se deschise ca o floare,iar intruchiparea se desavarsi.” — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“No personality as strong as Zelda’s could go without getting criticisms and as you say she is not above reproach. I've always… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely—taking almost a delight in the thrust. Incessantly she puzzled… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging… — 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
“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
“You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He put his arms around her, enclosing her completely as if he didn’t want even the intangible to escape.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. — 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
“the heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight,...” — 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
“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
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
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
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
