“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer—there it is.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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