Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her finger, gently, as though she were asleep.

Hello—what hotel is this—?

I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

You don't have to dance—just get out there on the floor and shake.

Hypnosis was a tool that Dick had distrusted and seldom used, for he knew that he could not always summon up the mood in himself—he had once tried it on Nicole and she had scornfully laughed at him.

She began to cry—she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother's maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath.

Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air

There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

and no one ever _know_ that you were

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" —Thomas Parke D'invilliers

was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort

And afterward tracing down the hot sinister shin of the Italian boot with the wind soughing around those eerie castles, the dead watching from up on those hills.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. ... Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes

his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

Il existait entre nous une complicité si rare que nous nous comprenions à demi-mots

Le lieutenant la regardait pendant qu'elle me parlait, d'une façon dont toutes les jeunes filles espèrent qu'on les regardera un jour.

My life, my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.

You can't re- peat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

can almost look down the tracks and see you going but without you, dearest, dearest, I can't see or hear or feel or think. Being apart—whatever has happened or will happen to us—is like begging for mercy from a storm, Anthony; it's like growing old.

Her voice is full of money

She hurried into a new spring evening dress of the frailest fairy blue. In the excitement of seeing herself in it, it seemed as if she had shed the old skin of winter and emerged a shining chrysalis with no stain; and going downstairs her feet fell softly just off the beat of the music from below. It was a tune from a play she had seen a week ago in New York, a tune with a future...