““You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.”Chapter 1 · Daisy Buchanan · ★★★★☆→
“It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people—with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.Chapter 4 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.Chapter 4 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.Chapter 6 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"Chapter 7 · Daisy Buchanan · ★★★★☆→
“Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“But young men didn't—at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.Chapter 3 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
““You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.”Chapter 1 · Daisy Buchanan · ★★★★☆→
“It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people—with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.Chapter 4 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.Chapter 4 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an over-wound clock.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.Chapter 6 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"Chapter 7 · Daisy Buchanan · ★★★★☆→
“Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.Chapter 2 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“But young men didn't—at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.Chapter 3 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
