My favourite quotes from "The Great Gatsby"

"Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"

"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

"They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together."

"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others-young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."

"His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete."

"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever."

"Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!"

"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."

"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"

"It takes two to make an accident."

"I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."