Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are save…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories, p.67, Wordsworth Editions
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