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Moment Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever…
- For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood…
- So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
- For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then…
- Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link…
- There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
- Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it…
- It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment…
- Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there…
- For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
- Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere…
- Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I…
- You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're…
- It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I…
- The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
- He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
- The loneliest moment in someones life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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