Gatsby quotes

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Cards (43)

Chapter one- Tom Buchanan
"Forever seeking .. the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"
Chapter one - Daisy
"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down... an arrangement of notes that will never be played again"
Chapter one - Gatsby
"nothing except a single green light" "trembling"
Chapter two - Valley of Ashes
"where ashes grow like wheat" "grotesque gardens" "ash-grey men"
Chapter two - Valley of Ashes
"impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight"
Chapter two - Symbolism 
"The eyes of Dr T.J. Eckleburg"
Chapter two - Tom and Myrtle
"small living room, a small dining room... furniture entirely too large for it"
Chapter two - Myrtle
"several old copies of Town Tattle"
Chapter two - Myrtle
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman... but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe"
Chapter two - Tom
"Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand"
Chapter three - Gatsby and Nick
"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it... irresistible prejudice in your favour"
Chapter three - Jordan
"I like big parties they're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy"
Chapter four - Tom and Daisy
"In June she married Tom Buchanan, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville had ever seen"
Chapter four - Daisy and Tom/Gatsby
"he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars... wastebasket" (Tom) "She wouldn't let go of the letter... she saw it was coming to pieces like snow" (Gatsby)
Chapter four - Tom and Daisy
"The next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver"
Chapter four - Gatsby
"bought a house so that Daisy would be just across the bay... he waited five years"
Chapter five - Gatsby
"rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock"
Chapter five - Gatsby
"but there was a change in Gatsby that was simply cofounding. He literally glowed... a new well-being radiated from him"
Chapter five - Gatsby and Daisy
"compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy. It had seemed as close a star to the moon"
Chapter five - Gatsby
"colossal vitality of his illusion"
Chapter five - Gatsby
"no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart"
Chapter six - Gatsby
"Can't repeat the past... why of course you can!"
Chapter six - Gatsby and Daisy
"formed a ladder... he could climb to it... he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder"
Chapter six - Gatsby and Daisy
"Forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath”
Chapter six - Tom
"A lot of these newly rich people are just bootleggers"
Chapter six - Gatsby
"a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing”
Chapter six - Gatsby and Cody
"A legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars. He didn't get it. He never understood the legal device"
Chapter six - Gatsby and Daisy
"romantic possibilities totally absent from her world" (Gatsby's parties)
Chapter seven - Daisy
"her voice is full of money"
Chapter seven - Tom
"Sit back and and let Mr nobody from nowhere make love to my wife"
Chapter seven - Gatsby
"She's never loved you she loves me" "She only married you because i was poor and she was tired of waiting for me"
Chapter seven - Daisy
"I never loved him (she said with perceptible reluctance)"
Chapter seven - Myrtle
"mingled her thick dark blood with the dust" "breast swinging loose like a flap" "giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored for so long"
Chapter seven - Tom and Daisy
"unmistakable air of natural intimacy...conspiring together"
Chapter seven - Gatsby
"looking over nothing"
Chapter eight - Gatsby
"ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves”
Chapter eight - Gatsby
“holocaust was complete”
Chapter eight - Gatsby
"He stretched out his hand desperately as if to only snatch a wisp of air"
Chapter nine - Symbolism
"owl eyed glasses"
Chapter nine - Tom and Daisy
"they were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money... let other people clean the mess they had made"