Jacob's Ladder Quotes

“And with the clumsy tools of jealousy and desire, he was trying to create the spell that is ethereal and delicate as the dust on a moth's wing”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob's Ladder

“His desire re-created her until she lost all vestiges of the old Jenny, even the girl who had met him at the train that morning. Silently, as the night hours went by, he molded her over into an image of love - an image that would endure as long as love itself, or even longer - not to perish till he could say, 'I never really loved her.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob's Ladder

“Her face, the face of a saint, an intense little Madonna, was lifted fragilely out of the mortal dust of the afternoon.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob's Ladder