F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride."

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“One should… be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”

“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.”

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”