Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

Most of us have a favorite, a heroic period, in our lives.

Being alone in body and spirit begets loneliness, and loneliness begets more loneliness.

...it could not stand still, it must go on or go back.

The best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

“Some one can help me.”
“Maybe so. You can help yourself most."

“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really—I’m just a— I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”

That’s going to be your trouble—judgment about yourself.

Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

“Did you have fun?”
“Just as much fun as anybody has running away from things."

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.