Books Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions…

— Lisa Kleypas

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that…

— Terry Goodkind

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his,…

— Patricia Briggs

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded…

— Ann Brashares

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and…

— Betty Neels

“Her feisty interludes turned him on, and he wanted to push her into situations that encouraged the tigress in her to come out”

— Kitty French

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire…

— Michael Ondaatje

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's…

— Karen Joy Fowler