“Things 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. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”
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.”