

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in 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 as 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.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise

“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
― Flappers and Philosophers
― Flappers and Philosophers

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
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