“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Back out,’ he suggested after a moment. ‘Put her in reverse.’ ‘But the WHEEL’S off!’ He hesitated. ‘No harm in trying,’ he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me. — 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
Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It's not a bad time, it's not one of the worst times of the day.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time... — 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
“She looked up at him as he took a step toward the door; she looked at him without the slightest idea as… — 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
“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
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes… — 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
