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“… and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver, and started it off on a three months’ trip to the south seas. I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband” P76

“She was incurably dishonest…It made no difference to me. Dishonestly in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply”

“…for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”

“I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”