GREAT GATSBY QUOTES ABOUT LOVE

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” – Jay Gatsby

“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

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

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – Tom Buchanan

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” – Nick Carraway

“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” – Narrator

“I love you now — isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” – Gatsby

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” – Gatsby

“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.” – Gatsby

“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of—” I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. – Narrator and Gatsby

“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.'” – Narrator

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” – Narrator

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And then one fine morning – MISSING TRAVEL QUOTES

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

“I want you and Daisy to have a nice time. You two ought to go away. It’s pretty certain they’ll trace my car.” – Gatsby

“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”

“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” – Gatsby and Narrator

“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.” – Narrator

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” – Narrator

“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay. You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.” – Jordan Baker

“I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.” – Narrator

“He was a son of God – a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that – and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.” – Narrator

“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated!” – Daisy Buchanan

“He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.” – Narrator