I think I'm rereading Gatsby with Jack in mind, because I keep stopping at passages in it and thinking of him. It has nothing to do with the character that says the dialogue or who they're describing, it comes back to him. I dunno what that says about my CR skillz. Probably that they're shite.
I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrlelvant criticism that made it no less charming.
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"I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about over and over was, 'You can't live forever, you can't live forever.'"
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[People] came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
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"You look at him sometime when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man."
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Yeah. I got nothing. Just mental bookmarking, I guess.