You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWell, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLife is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
F. Scott Fitzgerald