Nick Carraway

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"There's no place like home."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."

"You can't repeat the past."

"Her voice is full of money."

"Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."

"I am still awed by the creative spirit."

"I am still awed by the creative spirit."

"The letter can't get there for two weeks at least."

"I became aware that my presence tended to put an end to the evening."

"Their money was safe, and that was all that mattered."

"So it goes."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"The lamp-light strained on her pale cheeks."

"In the end, we are all alone."

"The green light was no longer there."

"So we all do, always, in the end."

"We are all fools."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"The truth is, he's worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"Rich, deep sighs, as though she wanted to tell something and had given up."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, I am inclined to reserve all judgments."