The Great Gatsby

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled."

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures."

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

"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I said. That's all."

"I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion."

"His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life."

"For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's."

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

"He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves."

"I've always been glad I said that. It was the kindest thing I ever did."

"Their house was even more elaborate than I expected."

"So it had come to this, and he could think of nothing to say."

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

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

"Self-control!"

"I want to see her in her house, said Gatsby. She used to live there."

"It takes two to make an accident."

"High above the city, our hero stood on the fifty-second floor of the Ritz."

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time."

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

"I'm going to tell him the truth about himself—that he's worth the whole damn crowd put together."

"What's the use of that old jalopy? You could buy anything you want."

"Disapproval hung over the proceedings like the fog."

"I am still the happiest man alive."

"They're such careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."

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

"The truth is, you make me miserable sometimes. You know that don't you?"

"Just tell them the truth: that you never loved him."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

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