"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."
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
"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."
"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."
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."