“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Worn Out, Sleep
“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, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“She was dazzling — alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Beautiful People, beauty, Elegant, Great Looking, Agony of Beauty
“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less moth-eaten man who grinds an organ — and once he was an organ-…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: 20-Somethings, Twenties, Age, 20s, Young Adults
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Ideal Lover, Dreams, Dreaming Of You
“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, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.comTagged: Loss, From Dust We Come, Losing In A Sense, Getting What You Want