The Great Gatsby

"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."

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

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

"It excited him too, that for her this was not just an evening but a crisis."

"Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men."

"Have you read The Rise of the Coloreds in Civilization?"

"He knew that when he kissed this girl, he would be forever wed to her."

"Daisy's voice is like a human being."

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

"Let me tell you about the very rich."

"I wouldn't ask too much of her."

"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."

"It is what it is."

"An extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person."

"So it goes."

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

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

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

"Her voice is full of money."

"The only thing that's kept me from being a bum is that I've been too cowardly to commit suicide over it."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

"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."

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

"The past cannot hurt you anymore. Only—only I love you."

"Her smile was a well-known smile—a smile of eternal reassurance."