#gatsby

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#paradise #men

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#courage-in-love #courageous #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#success

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #simplicity

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #beauty

My hair-- bob it! ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#bob #fashion #fitzgerald #gatsby #girls

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#funny-quotes #gatsby #love #sarcasm #tom

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may have come across four or five times in your life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death! ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #end-of-the-world #gatsby #heroes #heroic