I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repel... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

"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."

"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."

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

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