He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Nick Carraway