"No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dre…"

"I was rather literary in college […] and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again …"

"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the long…"

"All right.[…] 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, …"

"This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, w…"

""I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally."

"I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became…"

"People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found …"

"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever sin…"