Quotes - Melissa (Wasaga Beach, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 38

#1

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: humor, intimacy, sexual

2078 likes

#2

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: youth

214 likes

#3

“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

183 likes

#4

“We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: april, august, charlatan, july, june, september, spring, summer

207 likes

#5

“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

41 likes

#6

“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: cynicism, love

52 likes

#7

“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, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

tags: attainment, desire

1817 likes

#8

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

669 likes

#9

“Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.”
― Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

22 likes

#10

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

10682 likes

#11

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

3099 likes

#12

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: affection, amity, love

4067 likes

#13

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

1157 likes

#14

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

115 likes

#15

“Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.

'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

tags: fitzgerald, freedom, poor, rich, the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz

17 likes

#16

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
― E.M. Forster, The Life to Come and Other Stories

tags: despair, love, parting-ways, separation

63 likes

#17

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

tags: friendship

663 likes

#18

“Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

413 likes

#19

“I'm not much like myself any more.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

54 likes

#20

“Kiss me now, love me now.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

38 likes

#21

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

31 likes

#22

“Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.”
― David Levithan, Six Earlier Days

tags: days, everyday, inspirational

114 likes

#23

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

297 likes

#24

“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

65 likes

#25

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

11757 likes

#26

“She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

645 likes

#27

“nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”
― Nicholas Sparks

tags: bhie, happiness, impermanence, joy, star

297 likes

#28

“Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

tags: comfort

211 likes

#29