The Great Gatsby

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly at the distance."

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

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

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

"They shoot the messenger, don't they?"

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

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"Can't you talk about crops or something?"

"That's the difference between you and me. I can tell you about the past because I know that I'm through with it."

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

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

"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife."

"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"Her voice is full of money."

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

"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."

"What's the matter? You look all worried."

"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."

"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."

"We must all be dreamers in this life."

"The green light beat with hope."

"Let me tell you something—I'm not jealous."

"He's a bootlegger. Everybody says so."