As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I… — 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
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the… — 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
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision… — 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
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the… — 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
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night 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
It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and… — 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
