reputation as quotes from The Great Gatsby
…Ready For It?: “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
End Game: “She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
I Did Something Bad: “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine - I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
Don’t Blame 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 her all the time.”
Delicate: “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
LWYMMD: “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
So It Goes…: “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”
Gorgeous: “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”
Getaway Car: “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
King Of My Heart: “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
DWOHT: “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget.”
Dress: “At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
TIWWCHNT: “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
Call It What You Want: “Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.”
New Year’s Day: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”