F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"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."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."

"Human sympathy has its limits."

"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."

"Ah,"she cried, "you look so cool."Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool,"she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."

"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"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."

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."