“already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole’s problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's… — 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
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — 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
“It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For him time stood still and then every few years accelerated in a rush, like the quick re-wind of a film, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He shut the door and coming back into the room stood for a moment lost in thought with the tennis ball still… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“New friends,” he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of… — 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
“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
“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long… — 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