“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags metaphor, time
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags imagery
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags love, short
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags freedom, life
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags death
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags people, short
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags short
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 0 Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel tags death, imagery, short