Desire Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Download Open image

““He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.””

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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