Love in Gatsby

8 quotes, in the order they happen.

The quotes

an extraordinary gift for hope

This is what Nick cannot drop about Gatsby. Hope, not the parties.

that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool

Daisy hopes her daughter is a fool. She thinks that is the safest thing a girl can be.

a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock

Nick sees Gatsby reaching for a light across the water. It is Daisy's dock. Gatsby does not say her name yet.

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you."

Gatsby does not want Daisy now. He wants the last four years erased.

Her voice is full of money

Nick could not name what was in Daisy's voice. Gatsby could. Money.

I did love him once—but I loved you too

Gatsby needs her to say she never loved Tom. She cannot say it cleanly.

I never loved you

Four years, wiped with one sentence. Daisy will not give him that sentence.

You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock

He tells Daisy he has been watching her light. She puts her arm through his. He is still looking at the light.