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

650 – “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 it is the beginning of everything.”

–F Scott Fitzgerald referring to his soon to be wife, Zelda Sayre

620 – “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

–Nick Carraway’s Father in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

463 – “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”

–Sally Carrol Happer in F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace”

123 – “I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.”

– From F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night