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 wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now… — 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
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever… — 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 wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that… — 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
