F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trending quotes

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

Source: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

“Kiss me now, love me now.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”

Source: The Great Gatsby

“You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Never miss a party… good for the nerves--like celery.”

“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”

Source: Gatsby Girls

“Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.”

Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories

“I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams”

Source: Tender Is the Night