I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

America is a willingness of the heart.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.