Quotes from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“When his son was dressed Mr. Button regarded him with depression. The costume consisted of dotted socks, pink pants, and a belted blouse with a wide white collar. Over the latter waved the long whitish beard, drooping almost to the waist. The effect was not good.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“A rigour passed over him,
blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal--with an effort he choked back the impulse. "You're just the
romantic age," she continued--"fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork;
forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is--oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is
the mellow age. I love fifty.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Benjamin discovered that he was becoming more and more attracted by the gay side of life. It”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Benjamin started; an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recompose the very elements of his body. A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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