“his career..”
“as Trimalchio was over”
“so the whole caravansary had fallen in…”
“like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes”
“Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise…”
“i dont think he had ever really believed in its existence before”
“you resemble the advertisement of the man, she went on innocently…”
“you know the advertisement of the man-“
“all right broke in tom quickly, im perfectly willing to go to town…”
“come on- were all going to town”
“her voice is full of money , he said suddenly (…) that was it, id never understood it before, it was full of money-…”
“that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it”
“well you take…”
“my coupe and let me drive your car to town”
“we were listening to the portentous chords of mendelssohns wedding march…”
“from the ballroom below”
“i suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let mr nobody..”
“from nowhere make love to your wife”
“she never loved you do you hear? he cried ‘she only married you because i was poor and she was tired of waiting for me…”
“it was a terrible mistake but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!”
“and what’s more, i love daisy too. once in a while i go off on a spree and make a fool of myself…”
“but i always come back and in my heart i love her all the time”
“oh you want too much! she cried to gatsby ‘ i love you know isnt that enough? i cant help whats past…”
“she began to sob helplessly ‘ i did love him once - but i loved you too”
“shes not leaving me! toms words suddenly leaned down over gatsby…”
“certainly not for a common swindler whod have to steal the ring he put on her finger”
“i was thirty. before me stretched the portentous menancing road of a new decade (…)thirty… “
“the promise of a decade of loneliness a thinning list of single men to know a thinning brief case of enthusiasm thinning hair”
“ive got my wife locked up in there, explained wilson calmly”
“shes going to stay there till the day after tommorow and then were going to move away”
“when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspriration they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath”
“the mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had chocked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long “
“yes he said after a moment but of course ill say i was. you see when we left new york she was very nervous and she thought it would ..”
“steady her to drive - and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way “
“they werent happy (…)there was an unmistakeable air of natural intimacy “
“about the picture and anybody would have said they were conspiring together”
“i want to wait here till daisy goes to bed. good night old sport…”
“he put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his hs scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. so i walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight- watching over nothing”
