❥ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐁𝐘 [ 𝚂𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚂 ] .
adapted from f. scott fitzgerald’s 1925 novel.
many lines have been altered to be more roleplay-friendly.
change gendered language and add context to your needs.
happy roleplaying!! ♡
❛ whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. ❜
❛ i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. ❜
❛ you remind me of a rose, an absolute rose. ❜
❛ i’ve had a very bad time, [name], and i’m pretty cynical about everything. ❜
❛ that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world. a beautiful little fool. ❜
❛ i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜
❛ whenever he sees i’m having a good time he wants to go home. ❜
❛ you’re a rotten driver. either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn’t to drive at all. ❜
❛ i hate careless people. that’s why i like you. ❜
❛ i don’t want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear. ❜
❛ i usually find myself among strangers because i drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me. ❜
❛ you’re acting like a little boy. ❜
❛ i’m delighted to see you. i’m delighted that you dropped in. ❜
❛ by god, i may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. ❜
❛ if you want to kiss me any time during the evening, just let me know and i’ll be glad to arrange it for you. ❜
❛ you can’t repeat the past. ❜
❛ can’t repeat the past? why of course you can! ❜
❛ you dream, you. you absolute little dream. ❜
❛ what’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? and the day after that, and the next thirty years? ❜
❛ life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜
❛ you look so cool … you always look so cool. ❜
❛ you think i’m pretty dumb, don’t you? ❜
❛ we’re getting old. if we were young we’d rise and dance. ❜
❛ what kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow? ❜
❛ you’re causing a row. please have a little self control. ❜
❛ i suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let mr. nobody from nowhere make love to your wife. ❜
❛ i know i’m not very popular. ❜
❛ i don’t give big parties. i suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends—in the modern world. ❜
❛ your wife doesn’t love you. she’s never loved you. she loves me. ❜
❛ once in a while i go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but i always come back, and in my heart i love you all the time. ❜
❛ oh, you want too much! i love you now—isn’t that enough? ❜
❛ i did love him once—but i loved you too. ❜
❛ there’re things between [name] and i that you’ll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget. ❜
❛ i’m going to take better care of you from now on. ❜
❛ you’ve got to pull yourself together. ❜
❛ there i was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden i didn’t care. ❜
❛ they’re a rotten crowd. you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. ❜
❛ you weren’t so nice to me last night. ❜
❛ you may fool me but you can’t fool god! ❜
❛ i don’t give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and i felt a little dizzy for a while. ❜
❛ it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. i thought you were an honest, straightforward person. ❜
❛ i’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor. ❜
❛ you’re crazy, [name]. crazy as hell. i don’t know what’s the matter with you. ❜