Arianna Mattson

“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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

“Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon