| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| Discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise |  |
| I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| "Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part--once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| "This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgment--the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of--every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| Progress was a labyrinth . . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | This Side of Paradise | |
| Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved-to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and Damned | |
| "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 hands." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and Damned | |
