“He was in a mess, one of those terrific messes which are ordinary incidents in the life of the poor, which follow poverty like birds of prey. The poor go under or go up or go wrong or even go on, somehow, in a way the poor have.”
More from F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”
“Some day I'll probably love other women - or maybe there'll never be anything but you.”