Favorite+Quote+from+The+Great+Gatsby

Post your favorite quote from the novel. Do NOT repeat if it has already been posted. So, yes, you need to view/skim all quotes before posting yours.

THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET—CHILDREN. IN THE MEANTIME, IN BETWEEN TIME——” || Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can! || "Her voice is full of money"
 * || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2 || Chapter 3 || Chapter 4 || Chapter 5 || Chapter 6 || Chapter 7 || Chapter 8 || Chapter 9 ||
 * Jay Gatsby/James Gatz ||  ||   ||   ||   || “ONE THING’S SURE AND NOTHING’S SURER

“You loved me TOO?” || "Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married - and loved me more even then, do you see?" ||  ||
 * Nick Carraway || "Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."

"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." || "But above the gray land and the spasms o bleak dust which d..... after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg. The eys of Doctor.. are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high....dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brook on over the solemn dumping ground." || "[Gatsby's smile had] a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life....It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."

"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited" |||| There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion. ||  || "Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tighetening my arms." || "You're acting like a little boy!" "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry." || "It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment." || "The transition from libertine to prig was so complete."

"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair." || "They're a rotten crowd - you're worth the whole damn bunch put together" || "I'm thirty, I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." ||
 * Daisy Buchanan/Faye || "I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"

"I KNOW. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated - God, I'm sophisticated." ||  ||   ||   || "Who is Tom"

"They're such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I've never seen such- such beautiful shirts." ||  || "You always look so cool" ||   ||   ||
 * Tom Buchanan || "Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged... It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."

“Did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda?”
|| "He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive." ||  ||   ||   ||   || "What kind of row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?" ||  ||   || criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." || "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe." || "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || "Of course we was broke up when he run off from home but I see now there was a reason for it" - Henry Gatz
 * Myrtle Wilson ||  || "He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out... I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried... all afternoon." ||   ||   ||   ||   || "Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!" ||   ||   ||
 * George Wilson ||  || "He's so dumb he does not know he is alive." ||   ||   ||   ||   || "I've got my wife locked in up there,...and then we're going to move away" || "You may fool me, but you can't fool God" ||   ||
 * Jordan Baker ||  ||   || "It takes two to make an accident." || "I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did." ||   ||   || "We're all white here" ||   || "You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver?" ||
 * Other Characters || "Whenever you feel like

“Look here, old sport, you’ve got to get somebody for me. You’ve got to try hard. I can’t go through this alone.” -Nick's thoughts ||