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“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.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― F Scott Fitzgerald

“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is-- utterly Rosalind. 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. All others are hers by natural prerogative.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Another sigh came from the window-- quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt the quiver of a tear on his eyelid.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“(They kiss—definitely and thoroughly.)”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that '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.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory-- tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that-- but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“It's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic tastes.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Each life unfulfilled, you see,       It hangs still, patchy and scrappy;     We have not sighed deep, laughed free,       Starved, feasted, despaired—been happy." But his life”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“--I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires----
"You are not!" She brought one little fist down onto the other. "You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“With people like us our home is where we are not.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“She is by no means a model character.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise