If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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]

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.