“When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.”— Madeleine Albright, en.wikiquote.org
“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beaut…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork tha…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“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.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“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.’”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, hopelovelittleshepherd.blogspot.ca
“Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale besid…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.com