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

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

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

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

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

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