Miriam

“How different it all was from what you'd planned.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

“You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon