01UndatedI fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
02UndatedI wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
03UndatedI'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
04UndatedShe was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
05UndatedActually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
06UndatedAh," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
08UndatedThink how you love me," she whispered. "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 / quote ↗
09UndatedYou know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
10UndatedThey were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
11UndatedWas 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 Fitzgerald / quote ↗
12UndatedIt 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 / quote ↗
14UndatedSo he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
15UndatedIf you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
16UndatedSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
17UndatedI hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
18UndatedThey slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
19UndatedEvery one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
20UndatedI’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
21UndatedThe kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
22UndatedI was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
24UndatedI learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...F. Scott Fitzgerald / quote ↗
