the great gatsby

• "their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size"
• "I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two"
• "spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy"
• "the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered"
• "two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face"
• "Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body"
• "They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering"
• "she laughed, an absurd charming laugh"
• "Her face was sad and lovely"
• "She was a slender, small-breasted girl...like a young cadet"
• "if we don't look out the white race will be...utterly submerged"
• "Tom's got some woman in New York"
• "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world - a beautiful little fool"
• "asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged"
• "I'll sort of... fling you together"
• "I could have sworn he was trembling ...nothing except a single green light"
• "This is a valley of ashes ... where ashes grow like wheat"
• "the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg"
• "carried her flesh sensuously"
• "Mrs Wilson had changed her costume"
• "raised her eyebrows in despair at the ... lower order"
• "I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe"
• "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"
• "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy!"
• "Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"
• "Men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars"
• "It's more that he was a German spy during the war"
• "I ascertained. They're real."
• "He smiled understandingly ... it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life"
• "In the ditch, ... violently shorn of one wheel, rested a coupe which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before"
• "I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity"
• "She was incurably dishonest ... Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply"
• "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known"
• "He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxford', or swallowed it, or choked on it"
• "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die."
• "Gatsby's very careful about women"
• "They were so engrossed in each other that she didn't see me until I was five feet away"
• "how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to ... say goodbye to a soldier"
• "and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
• "Take 'em downstairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mine"