The Sensible Thing Quotes

“She told him in a dozen ways, of which the best was without words, how she had missed him. Her emotion reassured him, promised his anxious heart that everything would be all right".”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“She was dressed in pale green, and a gold ribbon bound back her dark, straight hair like a crown.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“Jonquil," he began, this time on a softer key. "After all that's happened between us, I wanted to come back and see you. Whatever I do in the future I'll never love another girl as I've loved you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“Perhaps she too would see the sunset and pause for a moment, turning, remembering, before he faded with her sleep into the past. This night's dusk would cover up forever the sun and the trees and the flowers and laughter of his young world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing