“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
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