Great Gatsby Quotes

From the text:

"It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never founding any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again ... it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men."
Chap 1, p. 2

"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it ... it faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
Chap. 3, p. 48

"It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it - high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl ..."
Chap. 7, p. 120