quotes for Gatsby Flashcards
Gatsby
‘her voice is full of money’
‘can’t repeat the past? of course you can’
‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future’
Daisy
‘I hope she will be a fool - that is the best thing a girl can be in this world - a beautiful little fool’
‘all the bright precious things fade so fast’
Nick
‘so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly to the wind’
‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever known’
‘I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity’
‘They were careless people tom and daisy…they smashed things up…and retreated back into their money’
Tom
‘its a fine book and everybody ought to read it’ - the rise of the coloured empire
‘I may be old fashioned in my ideas’