The Great Gatsby

"It's a terrible thing to be drunk in love."

"I like large parties. They're so intimate."

"The best thing for being sad is to learn something."

"I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."

"Her voice is full of money."

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

"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."

"Can't repeat the past? Of course you can!"

"The truth is, it's a terrible life if you let it be."

"Her voice is full of money."

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

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

"So it had come to this, and he knew how little it mattered to anyone at all."

"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles that seemed to understand you completely."

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

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

"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."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"Of all the confusing and muddled ducats in the world, the most mysterious change takes place in the very heart."

"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."

"I felt the fundamental decencies are parceled out unequally at birth."

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

"I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night."

"He smiled like a man who had fought his way through to serenity."

"Across the bay the moon rose higher into a face of diffusing stars."

"That's why I want you. Besides, that's not a question of fact. Obviously you loved me."

"An extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness."