Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" —

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No — Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and — and in love before they're born.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.