"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."

- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes."

-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,

Tender is the Night

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."

-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again." 

— F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

— F. SCOTT FITZGERALD