This isn’t particularly apropos to the subject, but I want to mention here how Fitzgerald is an absolute genius when writing about love and the turmoil, despair, joy and wonder of it. I have recently been working my way through an old favorite, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I am often in awe of his insight and the crystalline beauty of his prose. I want to put one quote here because it’s so simple, yet so shocking in the way it will send you back in memory to all those past loves you’ve had and that are now gone.

It’s from the story The Sensible Thing, itself a miracle of concision that manages to depict all the ups and downs of young love in 14 perfect pages. Anyway, here’s the quote:

There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

Ponder that my friends. It makes you want to open a bottle of wine and spend the next couple of hours staring into a fire while your mind reels.