F. Scott Fitzgerald

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

— Spoken by a character · I

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

— Horace · Head and Shoulders

I'm not sure what I'll do, but--well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

— Spoken by a character · The Ice Palace

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

— John

ANOTHER CHILD: I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.