“There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.”
Source: Beyond the Burning Lands
“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
Source: The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works
“Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.”
“I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me”
Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood