The Great Gatsby- Chapter 9 Quotes

"I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all"

"Ever since he made a success he was very generous with me"

"The thrilling returning trains of my youth"

"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life"

"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction"

"He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's, but he was a tough one"

"Looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house"

"Fresh, green breast of the new world"

"Face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then"

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"