850 – “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. If I thought there’d be another I’d lose my remaining faith in human nature.”

–Amory Blaine in F Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise

Quote Number:  403

Source: Fitzgerald, F Scott. This Side of Paradise. Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York. 1921. Pg 232. Online Here.

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