GOOD GATSBY QUOTES

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Nick Carraway

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway

“They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” – Nick Carraway

“He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance.” – Nick Carraway

“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” – Jay Gatsby

“I hope that she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since… ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'” – Nick Carraway

“I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.” – Jay Gatsby

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” – Nick Carraway

“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – Jay Gatsby

“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.” – Jay Gatsby 1ST FATHERS DAY QUOTES FROM DAUGHTER

“He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.” – Jordan Baker

“You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow . . . Everybody thinks so — the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything . . . Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!” – Zelda Fitzgerald (epigraph)

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” – Nick Carraway

“Her voice is full of money.” – Jay Gatsby

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” – Nick Carraway

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” – Daisy Buchanan

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.” – Nick Carraway

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” – Nick Carraway

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” – Nick Carraway