Gatsby Quotes Ch 5-9

"You always look so cool."

Daisy - to Gatsby - saying "I love you"

"But it's so hot and everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"

Daisy - wanting to escape the growing tension in the room

"Go ahead...and if you want to take down any addresses here's my little gold pencil."

Daisy- at Gatsby's party

"That's because your mother wanted to show you off"

Daisy- at her house to her daughter

"You take Nick and Jordan. We'll follow you in the coupe."

Daisy- getting ready to go to town.

"They're such beautiful shirts"

Daisy- unable to put to words her emotions while at Gatsby's house

"...and then she lost her nerve and turned back."

Gatsby - explaining the accident

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

Gatsby- after Daisy left his party

"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay . . . You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."

Gatsby- at tea with Daisy explaining where her house is

"Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?"

Jordan - to Nick as he is saying goodbye.

"I'd had enough of all of them for one day, and suddenly that included Jordan too."

Nick - at Tom's house after the accident

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

Nick - ending his relationship

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Nick - ending the novel

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Nick - frustrated with his cousin's treatment of others

"Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes."

Nick- Gatsby standing outside at tea

"Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?"

Tom - explaining when Daisy loved him

"I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door."

Tom - insulting Gatsby

"He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car."

Tom - to Nick about Wilson

"Who is this Gatsby...some big bootlegger?"

Tom- at Gatsby's party

"What kind of row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?"

Tom- to Gatsby starting the argument

"You don't have to tell me what kind of car it was! I know what kind of car it was!"

Wilson - after the accident

"God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"

Wilson - talking to Myrtle

"I got wised up to something funny the last two days"

Wilson- talking to Tom

"When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different . . . I stuck with them to the end . . . Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

Wolfsheim - explaining why he isn't coming to the funeral