The Great Gatsby

"I love the smell of new money."

"What did you do, Nick?"

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

"Gatsby was an extraordinary gift for hope."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly."

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

"The party never ended."

"I was within and without."

"She's not leaving me!"

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

"The sun descended lower in the sky."

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

"Memory is a form of perfection."

"I've been everywhere, man. I've been to every corner of the earth."

"The world's a hard place, Nick. It's a hard, complicated place."

"We are all creatures of circumstance."

"Never in my entire life have I heard such beautiful music."

"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."

"Her husband and her lover!"

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

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

"I'll tell you a family secret. I'm the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West."

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

"Love is just another word."

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

"Her voice is full of money."

"Civilization's going to pieces."

"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."

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

"Anger makes you productive."