The Romantic Egoists

"He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"They exchanged glances, trying to recognize the emotions of the day before. For a moment each seemed unreal to the other — then the slow warm hum of love began again."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"You were about the nicest sight I ever looked at."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"They stopped thinking with an almost painful relief, stopped seeing; they only breathed and sought each other. They were both in the gray gentle world of a mild hangover of fatigue when the nerves relax in bunches like piano strings, and crackle suddenly like wicker chairs. Nerves so raw and tender must surely join other nerves, lips to lips, breast to breast…"  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"Kiss me now, love me now."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


"You mustn’t confuse single failure with a final defeat."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via chardonette)


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"She clung nearer desperately and once more he kissed her and was chilled by the innocence of her kiss, by the glance that at the moment of contact looked beyond him out into the darkness of the night, the darkness of the world. She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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"You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


"When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love. It’s happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night


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