“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy - one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.” | Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via booksqouted)
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via purplebuddhaproject)
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via purplebuddhaproject)
Love isn’t like it is in books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)
I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via booksqouted)
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Blood (via blackshivers)
Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know — because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly… and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via theglasschild)

