F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“Human sympathy has its limits.”