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“It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“that voice was a deathless song.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly… the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened… the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Action is Character.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining."
I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“No one should live beyond 30”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Babylon Revisited

"Babylon Revisited"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
Source: Tender Is the Night

“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby