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“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” (Tender Is the Night Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“I don’t ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“In any case you mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger’s pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.” (Tender Is the Night Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“When you get drunk you don’t tear anything apart except yourself.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love. It’s happened to me before but never like this – so accidental – just when everything was going well.” (Tender Is the Night Quotes)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
