Quotes I've Fallen in Love with

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words."

"Sweetheart I've been frightfully busy, but you know I have thought of you every minute." -To Zelda Fitzgerald, March 1919

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

"Actually that's my secret--I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are."

"You're trying to leave yourself behind but you can't. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you'll have yourself with you." - The Adjuster

"I'd love to be in love." - Rags Martin - Jones and the Prince of Wales

" 'I still love you,' he said- 'that's the odd thing.' " - The Swimmers

"I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll ways be the person I am tonight." - Magnetism

"She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make others smile even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down in her soul. She is beautiful."

"You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it." -Tender Is The Night

"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love." - The Love of the Last Tycoon

"Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."

"She felt oddly broken and chastened, as if some one had had held her stripped soul up and laughed." - Benediction

"He used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in."