Jula

“I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.”
― Sarah Churchwell, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

“The tears coursed down her cheeks - not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets. A humorous suggestion was made that she sing the notes on her face whereupon she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby