Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAnd I like large parties. Theyโre so intimate. At small parties there isnโt any privacy.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMen she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHis was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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