Nick Carraway

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"The loneliness of the soul is unbearable; it makes men cruel."

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

"The only thing that matters is that you loved someone."

"He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close."

"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer night."

"We're all Gatsbys in our own way."

"Her smile was a well-known smile—a smile of eternal reassurance."

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

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

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

"So it goes."

"An extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person."

"It is what it is."

"Let me tell you about the very rich."

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

"Daisy's voice is like a human being."

"He knew that when he kissed this girl, he would be forever wed to her."

"Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men."

"It excited him too, that for her this was not just an evening but a crisis."

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

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams."

"I am still afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."