Romance Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

43 Romance quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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He put his arms around her, holding her tight as if nothing could escape. The quotes describe magical moments like pink palms that glow like a child's warm bath. They also speak of love as a chase, with pursuers, the pursued, the busy and the tired.

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“My hair-- bob it!”

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“I’m yours — you know it.”

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“She lent him her lips again for the faint brush of a kiss.”

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“Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.”

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“The odd thing is that I’m in love with you anyhow.”

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“Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.”

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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“Nothing had ever felt so young as her lips.”

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“He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts.”

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“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

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“After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.”

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“He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips, and felt that he had…

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“I love you. Do you hear? I’m telling you all of a sudden, but it isn’t new with me. I love you.”

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“no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.”

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“I’m afraid I’m in love with you and that’s not the best thing that could happen.”

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“They had senselessly begun to abuse each other’s love, tear it into shreds.”

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“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”

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“He put his arms around her, enclosing her completely as if he didn’t want even the intangible to escape.”

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“Our thoughts were frosty mist along the eaves; our two ghosts kissed, high on the long, mazed wires - eerie half-laughter echoes…

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“He fought with a desire to kiss her again, even tenderly, and began to tell her that she was being unwise, but…

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“He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he…

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“There was the starlight set upon the brilliant darkness; and there were her pale cool cheeks, and he let himself be lost…

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“Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before…

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he…

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“He could not remember when anything had felt so young and fresh as her lips. The rain lay, like tears shed for…

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“Their cool cheeks and warm lips met in the crisp darkness, and, watching the icy moon over his shoulder, Annie knew that…

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“She was a thin, a thin burning flame, colorless yet fresh. Her smile came first slowly, shy and bold, as if all…

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“Routine comes down like twilight on a harsh landscape, softening it until it is tolerable. The complexity is too subtle, too varied;…

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“Then for a moment they faded into the sweet darkness so deep that they were darker than the darkness, so that for…

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“My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till…

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“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff…

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“But Amory, being on the spot, leaned over quickly and kissed Myra’s cheek. He had never kissed a girl before, and he…

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the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff…

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“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland…

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“He was remembering too vividly the youth and freshness of her lips.”

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“He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.”

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“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the…

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“C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble”

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“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”

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“She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after…

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“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

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“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…

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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“You loved me too?" he repeated.”

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“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up…

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“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven…

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“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine…

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