Quotes & Sayings About The Great Gatsby About Daisy

Maturity
A stationary sense ... as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body grows
Inaccurate, tired;
Then I shall start to feel the backward pull
Take over, sickening and masterful
Some say, desired.
And this must be the prime of life ... I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time. — Philip Larkin

Clent sat up with impressive if graceless promptness, snatched his wig from a bedknob, and slammed it on his head back to front. Only then did he go about the business of actually waking. — Frances Hardinge

However, just because something isn't surprising doesn't mean it's easy to deal with. — Nnedi Okorafor

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does. — John Otway

May the man hold fast to what the child has promised. — Pope Francis