These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire-I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire-I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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