Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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]

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

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

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.