Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafรฉs in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMost affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOf course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald