Tom Buchanan Quotes

“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too.

My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald