Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
The one…
The one on my right was a colossal affair… Gatsby bought it so that Daisy would be just across the bay… He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from his purposeless splendour.
He gave…
He gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms… I could have sworn he was trembling… I glanced seawards - and distinguished nothing except a single green light.
He was…
He was consumed with wonder of her presence. He had been full of the idea for so long, dreamed it through to the end… At an inconceivable pitch of intensity… He was running down like an overwound clock.
There must…
There must have been moments when Daisy had tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, he had throw himself into it with a creative passion.
He wanted..
He wanted nothing less of Daisy than she should go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you.’ After obliterating four years with that sentence they could decide upon more practical matters.
Can’t repeat…
“Can’t repeat the past?” He cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
What kind…
What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow? … I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
Your wife…
Your wife doesn’t love you, she’s never loved you. She loves me… She only married you because I was poor… It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!
I found…
I found out what your little ‘drug stores’ were… I picked him for a bootlegger.
The compressed…
The compressed heat exploded.
The words…
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
With every…
With every word she was drawing further and further into herself and only the dead dream fought on… trying to touch what was no longer tangible.
A grotesque…
A grotesque rose.
