Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family, Conflict, Pain, Healing, Relationships
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“I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgiveness, Understanding, Perspective, Morality, Human Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness, Understanding, Perspective, Morality, Human Nature“Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Hope, Commitment, Future, Desire
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Hope, Commitment, Future, Desire“There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Culture, Tragedy, Failure, National Identity, Perspective
F. Scott Fitzgerald American Culture, Tragedy, Failure, National Identity, Perspective“But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life, by way of deep and intimate kindnesses they developed toward each other, by way of their laughing at the same absurdities and thinking the same things noble and the same things sad.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love, Relationships, Intimacy, Shared Experiences, Human Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love, Relationships, Intimacy, Shared Experiences, Human Connection“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pain, Strength, Happiness, Human Experience, Emotional Depth
F. Scott Fitzgerald Pain, Strength, Happiness, Human Experience, Emotional Depth“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anticipation, Disappointment, Time, Human Nature, Life’s Ironies
F. Scott Fitzgerald Anticipation, Disappointment, Time, Human Nature, Life’s Ironies“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kissing, Rationality, Humor, Human Behavior, Social Norms
F. Scott Fitzgerald Kissing, Rationality, Humor, Human Behavior, Social Norms“We all have souls of different ages.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Soul, Age, Individuality, Human Nature, Wisdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald Soul, Age, Individuality, Human Nature, Wisdom“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sobriety, Social Situations, Self-control, Wisdom, Observation
F. Scott Fitzgerald Sobriety, Social Situations, Self-control, Wisdom, Observation“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perseverance, Writing, Success, Determination, Struggle
F. Scott Fitzgerald Perseverance, Writing, Success, Determination, Struggle“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Voice, Attraction, Sensory Experience, Nature Metaphor, Human Connection
F. Scott Fitzgerald Voice, Attraction, Sensory Experience, Nature Metaphor, Human Connection“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire – I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ambition, Hope, Responsibility, Control, Human Potential
F. Scott Fitzgerald Ambition, Hope, Responsibility, Control, Human Potential“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Expatriation, Cultural Identity, Idealization, Travel, American Culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald Expatriation, Cultural Identity, Idealization, Travel, American Culture“There was a kindliness about intoxication – there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alcohol, Perception, Memories, Nostalgia, Human Experience
F. Scott Fitzgerald Alcohol, Perception, Memories, Nostalgia, Human Experience“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atmosphere, Evening, Amusement Park, Description, Imagery
F. Scott Fitzgerald Atmosphere, Evening, Amusement Park, Description, Imagery“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Despair, Spiritual Crisis, Time, Emotional Struggle, Human Condition
F. Scott Fitzgerald Despair, Spiritual Crisis, Time, Emotional Struggle, Human Condition“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Materialism, Reality, Dreams, Existence, Metaphor
F. Scott Fitzgerald Materialism, Reality, Dreams, Existence, Metaphor“I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory, Place, Nostalgia, Dreams, Inner Conflict
F. Scott Fitzgerald Memory, Place, Nostalgia, Dreams, Inner Conflict