“He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Love, kindness, Fitting In

“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That’s an old-fashioned idea, isn’t it?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, emotions

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Pleasure

“He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire To Be Wanted, Needing Acceptance From Others

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: sweet, Love, romance, Kissing

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Scars, Healing, Moving On, Sufferings, Courage

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Ignorance, Helplessness

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: I Want You, Crush, Thinking of You

“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Literature, Relationships

“Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: Finding Love, Single

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: His Beautiful Mind

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: His Beautiful Mind, Cute Things To Say To Her

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

Tagged: His Beautiful Mind