THE GREAT GATSBY - Quotes

DAISY

“The king’s daughter, the golden girl”

“Tom and Daisy were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money”

“Her voice was full of money”

“The two young women ballooned slowly to the floor”

“They were both in white, their dresses fluttering and rippling”

“Your wife doesnt love you… shes never loved you… she loves me”

GATSBY

“What foul dust floated in the wake of his dream”

“Standing alone on the marble steps”

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

“He had a grand vision of himself that never wavered”

“Cant repeat the past? Why of course you can.”

“His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”

“The collosal significance of the light had now vanished forever”

JORDAN

“It takes two to make an accident. I dont like careless people”

“She wore her evening dress, like all dresses, like sports clothes”

“She was incurably dishonest”

“They were sat on the couch like silver idols weighing down their dreams”

DUST

“This is the Valley of Ashes, a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and great grotesque gardens”

“There was an inexplicable amount not of dust everywhere”