Gatsby Love Quotes - Page 2

• I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, New York, Fall

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Lasts, Faces

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Air, Unhappy, Together

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Afternoon, Next

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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