Books Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“More often than not, these attempts at sociability ended in painful silence. His old friends, who remembered him as a brilliant student and wickedly…

— Paul Auster

“I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly…

— Penelope Lively

“Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Every time Tom was tempted to turn back, he made himself think of his brother. Joe, who he sometimes thought had been sent to…

— S.J. Bolton

“Tom would have come out eventually, although I suspect that if I’d had the chance to tell him my Really Bad News before he…

— Camille Pagán

“Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time…

— Mark Twain

“Tom and I help in common the hope that there might be a geographical ticket out of the problems of indecision, boredom, and the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigorating to push…

— Paul Auster

“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard, real life:…

— George Eliot

“Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys…

— S.J. Kincaid

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

— Mark Twain

“thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn’t help reminding her…

— Tom Perrotta