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.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.