F. Scott Fitzgerald

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

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

“An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”