You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThings 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, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSuddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThere are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHer philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWe all have souls of different ages.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWas 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?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWell, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD