When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and cafรฉ, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYour first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThen she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.
F. Scott Fitzgerald