Famous Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“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.”

“You 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.”

“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

“I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”

You have a place in my heart no one else could have.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

He had that curious love of green, sour-smelling things that one finds often in intelligent children.

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, poured back into his empty soul and his memories of love.