Nick Carraway

"What's the use of that gasoline station in the valley of ashes?"

"Daisy's voice is like music, almost like the sound of money."

"The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."

"He loved her, and he wanted to give her everything."

"Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on."

"We are all creatures of circumstance."

"Memory is a form of perfection."

"In my younger years, I wanted to be like them."

"The sun descended lower in the sky."

"He had come a long way and his dream seemed to be in sight."

"I was within and without."

"The party never ended."

"I've always been glad I said that. It was a strange thing to say."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly."

"Gatsby was an extraordinary gift for hope."

"Her eyes were wide, clear, and kind."

"The green light beat with hope."

"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited."

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

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

"The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever."

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

"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."

"For a moment a ghost of a chance flickered across her face."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

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