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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of–” I hesitated.

“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly.

That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money–that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

“The rich get richer and the poor get - children.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their names — Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The day life turned into nothing this world could fix,”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Sarah was up in her room with her heart broke so bad, Binah said you could hear it jangle when she walked.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings