The Great Gatsby

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

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

"Just tell me how you love me and I'll put it all aside."

"Daisy's voice is full of money."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

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

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

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

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

"What's the difference between that and any other lavish party, and this menagerie here?"

"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."

"Her voice is full of money."

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

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

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

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."