So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceasele... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"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’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."

"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."

"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."