Gatsby Quotes - Love and Time Flashcards
[Gatsby] “He was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”
Chapter 5, Page 59, 1/3rd to middleish
“‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before.’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see’.”
Chapter 6, Page 70-71
[Nick and Jordan] “As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat’s shoulder and the formidable stroke of the thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”
Chapter 7, Page 87, 1/4 down
“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 - to-morrow 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.”
Chapter 9, Page 115, end
[Gatsby] “He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
Chapter 8, Page 97, 2/3rds down
