“Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — 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
He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to… — 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
“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
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
“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if… — 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
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — 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
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
“There are times when you almost tell the harmless old lady next door what you really think of her face—that it ought… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and… — 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
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not… — 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
