“I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
—Daisy Buchanan
I like this quote because, not so much anymore but definitely at this time, this is a very true quote! Then, they didn't like women with opinions or who thought too much. In that world, that was the best thing a girl could be.
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
—Nick Carraway
Amen, just amen.
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
—Meyer Wolfshiem
It's so true, because whenever someone dies, everybody and their brother loved them and will miss them forever. It's just like, you couldn't love them like this when they were here to appreciate it?!?
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
—Nick Carraway
My 8 word memoir.
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
—Nick Carraway
All I can say is, Nick Carraway is a genius.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you've had.”
—Nick Carraway (quoting his father)
It's probably a hard thing to remember when you come from a family as wealthy as his, but because Nick took this to heart, it changed the way he looked at his entire life as well as the lives of those around him.
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
—Nick Carraway
It's cool that he says this when this book was written, in the grand scheme of things not that long after the abolition of slavery and since discrimination and segregation were present at this moment.