Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
‘You can’t repeat the past’ - Nick
‘Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!’ - Jay
‘Aware of the loud beating of
my own heart I pulled the door against the increasing rain.’
‘I think we call believed for a
moment that it had smashed to pieces on the floor’
‘Now in the ration,
he was running down like an overwound clock’
‘Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that
all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’ - Nick’s dad
‘Life was beginning
over again with the summer’
‘I’m glad it’s a girl.
And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’ - Daisy
‘I could have sworn he was trembling.
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light.’
‘He’s so dumb
‘Neither of them can
‘Tom Buchanan broke
he doesn’t know he’s alive’
stand the person they’re married to’
her nose with his open hand’
‘I thought they’d
be nice durable cardboard’
‘If one brick was removed
the whole library was liable to collapse’
‘What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to
stop, too, didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?’
‘So we drove on
towards death through the cooling twilight.’
‘Her voice
is full of money’ - Jay
‘God sees
everything’
