F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes Novels & Stories

"My father never wanted to work with you, what makes you think I will, Mr. Fitzgerald" One of the biggest mistakes his father had made was keeping the rascal alive...Reid wouldn't be making that mistake. Mr. Fitzgerald threw away his cigar and leaned his body forward. "Because I believe you're smarter than your father, I believe you're more of a man than that weakling," Reid nodded his head and put down his leg. "You're right, am not my father" Mr. Fitzgerald clenched his hands. "That's what am talking about. I like working with people that have the spirit. I have a few beautiful ladies, I think you'll be entertained" he clapped his hands twice and the door opened and four ladies walked in.

"I'm a whole 'package deal'. You don't need all that. You should be out meeting women who aren't so tied down." Scott couldn't stop the smirk as the image of a nude Jackie tied to the posts of a bed flashed through his mind. She must have realized it because she blushed bright red. He gave in to the temptation to tease her just a little. "I've met my share of women, Jackie. Women who don't mind being tied down."

He and I turn red in embarrassment, but nonetheless, he turns to me and wimnks an eye with a bright smile. I giggle, glancing at the quotes and sure of who wrote them. I silently turn my body to see him. The smile on my face making him turn red as he averts his sight between me and the teacher. He clears his throat and runs his hands against the side of his pants. "Ahem! Of course." He sighs and stands straight to read out loud. "No matter what happens, enjoy life because you only get one and it doesn't last long. . . . .-Epicurus." He smirks and squints his eye at me, making me roll my eyes and turn to face him.

About fifteen minutes into the drive, I asked, “Why so slow?” “Oh, I’m sorry. Do you feel the need, the need for… going faster?” I laughed so loudly I almost snorted and had to put both of my hands over my nose since even a baby like me recognizes the famous movie quote he almost said. “You’re a funny guy in an unassuming way.” He turned a slight shade of pink. “Yeah, well, in our line of work you have to find some way to be a little bit of a comedian, or you’ll end up in the loony bin.”

She asked motioning to the line I had offered as she turned to face me. "That love is beautiful, no matter who or what you love," I replied softly looking at the dirt trail before me, since the people in this town travelled by carriages, there weren't any roads to- "There are a lot of those in the book, just one line across the page with no context," "That's because I had that book made, I took my favourite quotes and placed them together," I confessed "So what's the story behind your quote?" She asked and I smiled nervously as I glanced over to her clearing my throat before saying.

Keep your friends close, sleep with your enemies if you can. It’s not the original quote, of course, but it would sure as hell have been if I had invented the quote. If anybody understood the quote completely, it would have to be my parents. You don’t see people receiving dinner invites from their biggest rivals with such enthusiasm like they do. They chatter excitedly in the back of the limo about how much fun tonight’s dinner party, organized by the Sinclairs, founding family of one of the biggest real estate agencies in the country.

When some of the conversations she had been caught up in was fending off men who wished to discuss liaisons for immoral reasons? Aunt Marrily had always said that love was easy to find, and that their family bore the privilege - and the curse - of being taken to it. If it was indeed a curse or a myth that plagued the Fitzgerald family, then she was free of it, for she was not a true Fitzgerald. "A mad woman?" Alexander mused. "Only a mad person could love me?" He paused. "Perhaps it is the reason all who love me are gone from me. Why they always insist to stay from me." His words, despite the slur of alcohol, felt genuine.

“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.” Never in my life did I believe there would be a day when a quote from a comic would relate so closely to me. But recently, I started feeling that the bad days in my life are far more than the good. I was so tired of fighting to keep my sanity. To fight to stay afloat of the sea of misery that was pulling me to its depths with every passing day. I didn’t think I had more strength to swim. I gave up.

Those are too sharp, too edgy for me to share. So, I flip through the pages, to find something appropriate. And something to lighten the mood. "'I came, I saw, she conquered.' The original Latin seems to have been garbled." Beth raises a hand to her mouth. Richard guffaws, slapping a hand on his knee. "Ain't that the truth." Their reaction seems a bit overplayed.... But they're trying to smooth things too.... I find another quote. "Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."

I watched the day pass me by while I say at the window staring out. Scott had made me fall in love with the night life, although he was looking like a past tense, my love for the moonlight and our memories weren't. Everytime I looked out and stred at theolm light, the times I spent withsmile onmy face always flashes in my memory and gave me a reason to smile amidsty turmoil. One flashes through my mind making me crouch in regret as it hit me thataybe I was jus being a fool. The way I had even been duelling on it would make others think of me as a fool.