What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.