Nick Carraway

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

"I wanted to get up and slap her, but I didn't."

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

"So it had come to that, Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"Daisy's voice was the most charming voice in the world."

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles that focused on you with an abiding delight."

"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me."

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

"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth."

"So I decided to get drunk."

"The barkeeper's instinct must have told him that he was dealing with that sort of confidence man."

"The day agreed upon was pouring rain."

"I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only an act, but there was an overtone of nervousness in it."

"They are careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures."

"The grief of his condition required that the measure of his anguish be drawn from the grave."

"She had told him that she loved him."

"It was one of those spring afternoons that give little promise of anything at all."

"Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."

"Gatsby, believe it or not, you're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time."