“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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