" Rosalind [commencing to sob again]: It's been so perfect--you and I. So like a dream that I'd longed for and never thought I'd find. The first real unselfishness I've ever felt in my life. And I can't see it fade out in a colourless atmosphere!
Amory: It won't--it won't!
Rosalind: I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory--tucked away in my heart.
Amory: Yes, women can do that-- but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.
Rosalind: Don't!
Amory:All the years never to see you, never to kiss you, just a gate shut and barred--you don't dare be my wife. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise
![F. Scott Fitzgerald quote : Rosalind [commencing to sob again]: It's been so perfect--you and I. So like a dream that I'd longed for and never thought I'd find. The first real unselfishness I've ever felt in my life. And I can't see it fade out in a colourless atmosphere!<br /><br />Amory: It won't--it won't!<br /><br />Rosalind: I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory--tucked away in my heart.<br /><br />Amory: Yes, women can do that-- but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.<br /><br />Rosalind: Don't!<br /><br />Amory:All the years never to see you, never to kiss you, just a gate shut and barred--you don't dare be my wife.](/image/1871321.jpg)