If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHis heart beat faster and faster as Daisyโs white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lipsโ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
F. Scott Fitzgerald