While Gatsby is a masterpiece in its own right, too many of Fitzgerald’s works go under-appreciated. Here are some of the best lines from the other books you should’ve been forced to read in high school.
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” – Tender Is The Night
“For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened – then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” – The Great Gatsby
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.” – The Beautiful and the Damned
“Oh, I was young, for I could turn again to you, most finite and most beautiful, and taste the stuff of half-remembered dreams sweet and new on your mouth.” – This Side of Paradise
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.” – The Beautiful and the Damned
“How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.” – This Side of Paradise
“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.” – The Beautiful and the Damned
“Her face, ivory gold against the blurred sunset that strove through the rain, had a promise Dick had never seen before.” – Tender Is The Night
“I wish I had done everything on earth with you.” The Great Gatsby
“And that taught me you can’t have anything, you can’t have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It’s like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you’ve got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.” – The Beautiful and the Damned
“Think how you love me," she whispered. "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.” – Tender Is The Night
