Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Color Quotes & Sayings

Until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. — Mary Doria Russell

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf. — Walter Hagen

If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will. — Elizabeth Peters

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. — Michael Chabon

He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs. — Willa Cather

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! — Edmund Waller

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love. — Evalyn Walsh McLean

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. — Mark Twain

So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own. — Anonymous

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs. — Mark Beauregard

Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves — Robin Bielman

But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses? — Rodney Ross

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's. — Anthony Bourdain

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place? — Frederick Lenz