“‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
Nick Carraway
100
“Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me.”
Jay Gatsby
100
‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’
Jay Gatsby
100
"When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."
Nick Carraway
100
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....
Nick Carraway
200
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Nick Carraway
200
‘I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.’
Nick Carraway
200
‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’
Jay Gatsby
200
"I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy Buchanan
200
‘He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.’
Henry Gatz
300
“They’ll keep out of my way,” she insisted. “It takes two to make an accident….I hope I never will,” she answered. “I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.”
Jordan Baker
300
"I found out what your 'drug-stores' were." He turned to us and spoke rapidly. "He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong."
Tom Buchanan
300
“Absolutely real — have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they’re absolutely real. Pages and — Here! Lemme show you.”
Owl Eyes
300
‘Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.’
Daisy Buchanan
300
‘In fact I think I’ll arrange a marriage. Come over often, Nick, and I’ll sort of—oh—fling you together. You know—lock you up accidentally in linen closets and push you out to sea in a boat, and all that sort of thing——‘
Daisy Buchanan
400
‘I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a— of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?’
Daisy Buchanan
400
"‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’"
Nick Carraway
400
I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child.
Nick Carraway
400
‘I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.’
Nick Carraway
400
‘Start him! I made him.’
Meyer Wolfsheim
500
On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more.
Nick Carraway
500
One night I did hear a material car there and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn’t investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over.
Nick Carraway
500
He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car.’
Tom Buchanan
500
‘A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war. He was so hard up he had to keep on wearing his uniform because he couldn’t buy some reg- ular clothes. First time I saw him was when he come into Winebrenner’s poolroom at Forty-third Street and asked for a job. He hadn’t eat anything for a couple of days. ‘Come on have some lunch with me,’ I sid. He ate more than four dollars’ worth of food in half an hour.’
Meyer Wolfsheim
500
‘And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering— look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard I sat down and cried like a baby. By God it was awful——‘