“ That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing m… Sarah Vowell
“ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant,… F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
“ They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . An… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… y… Tom Conrad
“ Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can! F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby. Parul Wadhwa
“ I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he is a tragic hero, he's our fucking Gatsby, and he lived for his fish and… Hannah Moskowitz
“ She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Every year, when we finished Gatsby, I read the last page aloud. Also, every year, I wept... I almost looked forward to it. Crying once a year is probably necessary... it was involuntary, almost exter… Holly LeCraw
“ My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wid… F. Scott Fitzgerald
