Quotes I've Fallen in Love with

F. Scott Fitzgerald pt. 3

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."

"Our loves are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"I'm not sentimental--I am as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't." - This Side of Paradise

"You know I'm old in some ways. In others, well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness and I dread responsibility." - This Side of Paradise

"You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming." - Tender is the Night

"You'll understand why storms are named after people." - The Beautiful and the Damned

"The sadness of the past is with me always." - to Zelda Fitzgerald

"Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself, and laissez-faire for others." - The Other Side of Paradise

"I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do." - More Than Just a House

"Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice." - The Sensible Thing

"There's a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." - Great Gatsby

"I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you." - Great Gatsby

"Excuse me again. I'm not much like myself any more." -Tender is the Night

"I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires." -This Side of Paradise

"If the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you? 'No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.' " - This Side of Paradise

"That is the part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

"She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty." - This Side of Paradise

"I don't just want words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."

"I'm not sure what I'll do, but--well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale." - The Ice Palace

"Stanco, stanco di niente, stanco di tutto, stanco del peso del mondo che non aveva scelto di sopportare."

"I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires." - This Side of Paradise

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." - The Crack-Up

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you are not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

"Se mio figlio sarà un uomo migliore di me, un giorno verrà a dirmi: "Papà, ti sbagliavi riguardo alla vita". Possa allora io avere il buon senso di rispondere: buona fortuna e arrivederci. Prendi la tua strada, battiti strenuamente, e lasciami qui, in mezzo a tutte la cose le cose sbagliate che ho amato." - Good Luck and Goodbye

"Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him.

No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done.

Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him."

"I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world." - The Beautiful and the Damned

"There are all types of love in this world but never the same love twice."

"And on his torn and bleeding lips it was like a pitiful retching of the soul." - The Beautiful and the Damned