Ruby Grace

“...I was lost with the rest. I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses - bound for dust - mortal -”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“He was at once the commonest and the most remarkable product of civilisation. He was nine out of ten people that one passes on the city street - he was the hairless ape with two dozen tricks. He was the hero of a thousand romances of life and art - he was the virtual moron, performing staidly yet absurdly a series of complicated and infinitely astounding epics over a span of threescore years.”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. After a few high-balls there was magic in the tall glowing Arabian night of the Bush Terminal Building - its summit a peak of sheer grandeur, gold and dreaming against the inaccessible sky. And Wall Street, the crass, the banal - again it was a triumph of gold, a gorgeous sentient spectacle; it was where the great kings kept the moment for their wars...
...The fruit of youth, or the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned