Dreams Underfoot: UnquietDreams' Dark Whimsy

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I know everyone who was forced to read this for school hates this book with the passion of a thousand suns, but rereading at 56 was a revelation. Fitzgerald crafts beautiful prose, and this line is just lovely.
The prose is lovely. I hated every single awful, selfish, destructive character in the book though.
 
“There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”

-- J.D. Robb, Promises in Death
 
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