Hello, Lovelies!
Recently, a film came out depicting one of the most well-known books in literary history, The Great Gatsby. I read the book in my English class this past year and fell in love with the story as well as the brilliant writer behind it all. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a hopeless romantic, coined the term "Jazz Age" of the 1920s. He is one of the most famous writers from that time and his novels like The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned are known as famous works from the Great Depression era. He was a phenomenal writer who wrote complex stories about rich and elite New Yorkers. He had his own semi-glamorous lifestyle like his known friendship with Ernest Hemingway as well as his romantic relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of my favorite authors and I thought I'd share a few of my favorite quotes from his works. Enjoy!
"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 that is the beginning of everything." - Fitzgerald talking about his wife, Zelda
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again."
"Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having, she'd have waited for you.' No, sir. The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." - This Side of Paradise
"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 beside him." - A New Leaf
All my love,
Hailey
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