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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned

  • Мария Караваеваhas quoted7 years ago
    How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    However much his wild thoughts varied between a passionate desire for her kisses and an equally passionate craving to hurt and mar her, the residue of his mind craved in finer fashion to possess the triumphant soul that had shone through those three minutes.
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    "This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do—and wouldn't last."
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    She was deeply herself
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    But I never want to change people or get excited over them.
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    Maury gazed helplessly into space.
    "Well, I can't describe her exactly—except to say that she was beautiful. She was—tremendously alive. She was eating gum-drops.
  • mariansalomonhas quoted8 years ago
    wedded to a vague melancholy that was to stay beside him through the rest of his life.
  • София Техажеваhas quoted8 years ago
    forgotten her vividness of emotion, which is true forgetting.
  • b6221027333has quoted4 months ago
    There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal
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