i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself - F. Scott Fitzgerald

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.