"Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things... The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged... It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things." Ch. 1
"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, a beautiful little fool."Ch. 1
"a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock" Ch. 1
"This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight."Ch. 2
"He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."Ch. 2
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."Ch. 2
"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited--they went there." Ch. 3
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."Ch. 3
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."- Ch. 3
"Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Recently there... they shot him three times in the belly and drove away." Ch. 4
"I belong to another generation... As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won't impose myself on you any longer."Ch. 4
"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: 'There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.'"Ch. 4
"I'm going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea." pg87 Nick ch5
"I certainly am awfully glad to see you again." pg91 Daisy ch5
"They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other...Daisy's face was smeared with tears and when i came in she jumped up and began whipping at it with her handkerchief before a mirror."pg94 narrator ch5
"You always have a Green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."pg98 Gatsby ch5
"James Gatz... or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of 17..."pg104 narrator ch6
"And it was from Cody that he inherited money-a legacy of 25,000 dollars. He didn't get it. He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye."pg107 narrator ch6
"I know your wife," continued Gatsby, almost aggressively." pg108 Gatsby to Tom ch6
"It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row boat, pulled out to the Toulouse and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour" pg104 narrator ch6
"Who works to go to town?" pg125 Daisy ch7
"Well, you take my coupe and lat me drive your car to town."pg127 Tom ch7
"A moment later she rushed out into the dark, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over." pg144 narrator ch7
"I got to wet egg by a side road," he went on, "And left the car in my garage. i don't think anybody saw us but of coarse I'll say i was." pg151 Gatsby to Nick ch7
"Go to Atlantic city for a week, or up to Montreal." He wouldn't consider it. He couldn't possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do."pg155 Nick ch8
"I don't think she ever loved him." pg159 Gatsby to Nick ch8
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." pg162 Nick to Gatsby ch8
"I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool god. I took her to the window"..."And i said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!'"...he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg..."God sees everything." repeated Wilson pg16 7 Wilson to police officer ch8
"It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body little way of in the grass, and the holocaust was complete." pg170 narrator ch8
"But as they drew back the sheet and looked at Gatsby with unmoved eyes, his protest continued in my brain. "Look here, old sport, you've got to get somebody for me."you've got to try hard. I can't go through this alone." pg173 ch9narrator
"When the Butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all." pg173 narrator ch9
"When i was a young man it was different-is a friend of mine died, no matter how, i stuck with them to the end. You may think that's sentimental but i mean it- to the bitter end." pg180 Meyer Wolfshiem ch9
"About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery..."pg182 narrator ch9