‘Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?”’
‘No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.’
Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.
— — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
— — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed, she can forget that part of her. That’s charm. The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget, the more charm you have.
— — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.
— — Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.
— — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
His hands took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song.
— — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzegerald
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
— — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
— — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
— — This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
