Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she … - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer.

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...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

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