To run from your past, is to be a coward of facing what you have done. To live in your past, is to be ignorant about the future.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him

[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

O ümitlerdir ki şimdi sefer etmekteyiz, biz o akıntıya karşı giden tekneler, durmadan geriye geçmişe çarpılıp atılsak da ne gam..

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.