Miriam

“Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“I matched my grey eyes against his brown ones for guile, my young golf-and-tennis heart-beats against his, which must be slowing a little after years of over-work. And I planned and I contrived and I plotted - any woman can tell you - but it never came to anything, as you will see. I still like to think that if he'd been a poor boy and nearer my age I could manage it, but of course the real truth was that I had nothing to offer that he didn't have.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“Bright unused beauty still plaugued her in the mirror.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon