“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic 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.” (Fitzgerald 180) 

"...and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground." (Fitzgerald 26)

"The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour." (Fitzgerald 26)

"'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to!'" (Fitzgerald 39)

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away." (Fitzgerald 8)

"They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering.." (Fitzgerald 13)

"Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white-" (Fitzgerald 24)

"I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two" (Fitzgerald 10)

“a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lusterless moon” (Fitzgerald 167)

"Your place looks like the world's fair." (Fitzgerald 79)

"The Great Gatsby" (Title)

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.” (Fitzgerald 48)

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Fitzgerald 22)

"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic...But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground" (Fitzgerald 26)

"when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitis out" (Fitzgerald 33)

"'Do they miss me?' she cried ecstatically. Nick replies with, “The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there's a persistent wail all night along the north shore." (Fitzgerald 15)

“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.” (Fitzgerald 7)

"I’ve got a nice place here,” he said." "Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore."(Fitzgerald 13)

"'But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.’ She yawned gracefully in my face.

 ‘Please come and see me . . . Phone book . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard . . . My aunt . . .’ She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door. (Fitzgerald 53)

"Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger. 'Look!' she complained; 'I hurt it.' (Fitzgerald 17)

"You ought to live in California-" (Fitzgerald 18)

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles"(Fitzgerald 46)

"He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.
'...I ascertained. They're real.' 'The books?' He nodded. 'Absolutely real - have pages have pages and everything" (Fitzgerald 47)

"At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden." (Fitzgerald 41)

“I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew” (Fitzgerald 10)

The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles. (Fitzgerald 31)

"Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay" "their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size" (Fitzgerald 10)

“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.” (Fitzgerald 17)

“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” (Fitzgerald 54)

"The party preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety." 

 "ferocious delicacy" (Fitzgerald 69)

 “there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines” (Fitzgerald, 8)

“then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk” (Fitzgerald, 20)

"My own house was an eyesore." (Fitzgerald 11 )

"Her voice is full of money." (Fitzgerald 115)

"her chin raised a little, jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee.” (Fitzgerald 168)