I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYoung people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
F. Scott FitzgeraldA love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.
F. Scott FitzgeraldErnest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIn the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThink how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.
F. Scott Fitzgerald