The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway: "It's a strange coincidence."
Jordan Baker: "What is?"
Nick Carraway: "The fact that Gatsby's house is just across the bay."
Jordan Baker: "It's no coincidence. He bought that house to be near her. He threw all those parties, hoping she'd wander in one night. He constantly asked about Daisy. I was just the first person that knew her."
Nick Carraway: "All that for a girl he hasn't seen in five years."

"See, I didn't realize until the other night that I'd met Gatsby. Five years ago. In Louisville. It was the day I got my new English golf shoes. Daisy was by far the most popular girl with the officers from Camp Taylor. One of them was in the car with her. It was Gatsby. And the way he looked at her is the way all girls want to be looked at."

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time. In its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. Anything can happen, now that we have slid over this bridge, I thought. Anything at all. Even Gatsby could happen."

"You see, I thought you ought to know something about my life. I didn't want you to think I was... Well, I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody."

Jordan Baker: "It all makes sense. It all makes sense!"
Nick Carraway: "What makes sense?"
Jordan Baker: "Everything! Oh, but here I am tantalizing you when I swore I wouldn't tell."
Nick Carraway: "Just tell me."
Jordan Baker: "Oh, Nick. I'm sorry, I swore. I swore I wouldn't tell."

Tom Buchanan: "You know, a lot of these newly rich people are just filthy bootleggers?"
Daisy Buchanan: "Not Gatsby. He's a businessman. He owned a lot of drugstores."
Tom Buchanan: [scoffing] "Businessman!"

"Gatsby's real name was James Gatz. His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota, but he never accepted them as his parents at all. In his own imagination, he was a son of God, destined for future glory."

Meyer Wolfsheim: "What a gentleman. From one of the finest families in the Midwest. Ah, sadly, all dead now. When I first made the pleasure of Mr. Gatsby's acquaintance, just after the war, I knew I'd discovered a man of fine breeding. A war hero! Such medals! And an Oxford man. You know Oxford?"
Nick Carraway: "Yes, I've heard of it."
Meyer Wolfsheim: "Then you would know that when it comes to married women, a man like this can be trusted. With a friend, with someone like you, he'd never so much as look at your wife."