“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that… — 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
Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again,… — 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
Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put… — 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
“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
“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.”… — 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
“Her hair, drawn back off her ears, brushed her shoulders in such a way that the face seemed to have just emerged… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I've told you many times that the first thing I decide is the kind of story I want. (...) This is not… — 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
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment… — 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
“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
“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
He's a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to… — 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
I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream… — 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
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you… — 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
“You and I have been happy; we haven't been happy just once, we've been happy a thousand times. . . Forget the… — 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
“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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
