F. Scott Fitzgerald

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Forgotten is forgiven.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.