- "We own you, and you'll admit it sooner or later. It is absurd to keep up the pretense of independence."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 2, Ch. 13 - "Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect--you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 2, Ch. 13 - "England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them that he is only trying to get back his self-respect in order to usurp his former power."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 2, Ch. 16 - "Good-by, my father--good-by, all my fathers."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 2, Ch. 19 - "she only cherishes her illness as an instrument of power."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 1 - "There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 2 - "to explain, to patch--these were not natural functions at their age--better to continue with the cracked echo of an old truth in the ears."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 2 - "Not without desperation he had long felt the ethics of his profession dissolving into a lifeless mass."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 3 - "If Europe ever goes Bolshevik she'll turn up as the bride of Stalin."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 4 - "We can't go on like this--or can we?....What do you think?... Some of the time I think its my fault--I've ruined you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 5 - "She was somewhat shocked at the idea of being interested in another man--but other women have lovers--why not me?"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 6 - "If she need not, in her spirit, be forever one with Dick as he had appeared last night, she must be something in addition, not just an image on his mind, condemned to endless parades around the circumference of a medal."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 6 - "So delicately balanced was she between an old foothold that had always guaranteed her security, and the imminence of a leap from which she might alight changed in the very chemistry of blood and muscle, that she did not dare bring the matter into the true forefront of consciousness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 7 - "He's not received anywhere anymore."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 7 - "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."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 7 - "No, I'm not really--I'm just a--I'm just a whole lot of different simple people."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 8 - "Everything Tommy said became part of her forever."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 8 - "Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 8 - "Then why did you come, Nicole? I can't do anything for you anymore. I'm trying to save myself."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 9 - "I have never seen women like this sort of women. I have known many of the great courtesans of the world, and for them I have much respect often, but women like these women I have never seen before."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 10 - "You don't understand Nicole. You treat her always as a patient because she was once sick."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 11 - "When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they put up."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Book 3, Ch. 12
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