I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
Interpretation
The speaker expresses a deep, intimate admiration for a person, preferring to keep that sentiment private.
This quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights the profound admiration and affection one can have for another person. The speaker's desire to keep this admiration hidden suggests that the beauty and wonder of the person they admire are too special to be shared with the world. It reflects a sense of protection over one's feelings and the unique bond that exists between them and the admired individual.
In practice
During a heartfelt toast at a wedding, one might quote this to convey deep affection for the spouse.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
It's hard to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that there is something wrong with you - when you are called dirty because of your skin color.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
I don't care about fashion, I care about women.
I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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