Quote of the Week: Tender is the Night

August 23, 2012 | Miscellania

The novel that I am pulling a quote from this week is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. It is often overshadowed by The Great Gatsby, but it has a beauty and power that is quite unique. (Will it too becomes a 3-D movie? Time will tell.)

“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”