Quotes About Jay Gatsby

#1. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Jay Gatsby: Old sport.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. The third boat was quite pretty, too ... this one was an Adirondack fishing boat, and even though it was only half finished, I could picture Jay Gatsby in it, casting a line over the side while he yearned for that shallow tramp, Daisy.

Kristan Higgins

#5. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.

Holly LeCraw

#6. They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong

#9. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

Marat Safin

#11. I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

Marlon James

#12. A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Keith Ablow

#13. The happy times went away for a while, but they're coming back

Jennifer Niven

#14. I'm pretty superstitious, I want to do everything right, get my routine right, and I wait for waves. I kinda try to sense the ocean coming together for me.

Mark Occhilupo

#15. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.

Donna Tartt

#16. When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

Jonathan Stroud

#17. Then watch out. I warn you!"
"That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

Diana Wynne Jones

#18. If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Lou Holtz

#19. Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. And," Kay adds as her final touch, "Christian Prescott is my boyfriend."
I dislike her already.

Cynthia Hand

#21. Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

Evinda Lepins