"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Chapter 9, pg. 182
"his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him." Chapter 9, pg. 182
"Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." Chapter 9, pg. 177
"Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead....'" Chapter 9, pg. 173
"He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass." Chapter 8, pg. 162
"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!" Chapter 8, pg. 160
"But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever." Chapter 8, pg. 153
"It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes." Chapter 8, pg. 148
"They weren't happy...yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together." Chapter 7, pg. 146
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." Chapter 7, pg. 136-7
"She must have seen something of this in my expression, for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house." Chapter 7, pg. 143
"...there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty." Chapter 7, pg. 124
"His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was." Chapter 6, pg. 111-12
"She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand." Chapter 6, pg. 108
"It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment." Chapter 6, pg.105
"He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end." Chapter 6, pg. 99