The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories Quotes

“A full moon drenched the road to the lustreless color of platinum, and late-blooming harvest flowers breathed into the motionless air aromas that were like low, half-heard laughter.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“there were no dreams, no dreams to haunt him.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“They had forgotten – as people inevitably forget”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“There was only one fly in the delicious ointment”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“a chasm began to widen between them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“home had for him so little charm that he decided to join the army.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“more attracted by the gay side”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“No one believed it. You had only to look at Benjamin and see.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“Blind with enchantment, he felt that life was just beginning.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“The registrar pointed sternly to the door. ‘Get out,’ he said. ‘Get out of college and get out of town. You are a dangerous lunatic.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“Roger Button’s silent agreement with himself to believe in his son’s normality.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“he did these things only because they were expected of him, and because he was by nature obliging.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“took life as he found it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“He merely warned his son that he would ‘stunt his growth.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“The remaining brush of scraggly hair; the watery eyes, the ancient teeth, seemed oddly out of tone with the gayety of the costume.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“for a dark instant Mr Button wished passionately that his son was black”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“A grotesque picture formed itself with dreadful clarity before the eyes of the tortured man”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“This is your child, and you’ll have to make the best of it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories

“stupefied”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories