Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You are mysterious, I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds' wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.