Quotes

"The best of life is built on what we say when we're in love. It isn't nonsense, Katharine," she urged, "it's the truth, it's the only truth." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf She carried her pocket Shakespeare about with her, and met life fortified by the words of the poets. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married," she said. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald "I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald