Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

We'll meet you on some corner. I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes.

Things are sweeter when they're lost.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

But some day I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

As for Tom, the fact that he had some woman in New York was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

When you get drunk you don't tear anything apart except yourself.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

She wanted what most women want, but she wanted it much more fiercely and passionately.

if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

And then, one fairy night, May became June.