The Plaza Hotel Quotes — The Great Gatsby

"Self-control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out … Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."

"Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me."

That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it … High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl …

"She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!"

They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts, even from our pity.

The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.

Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.

She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew a long time ago.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

"Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom," she admitted in a pitiful voice. "It wouldn't be true."