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“It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.”
... Jail
Her eyes were dilated to bright black shoe buttons and her hands fluttered like sparrows caught on a silvery wire.
They’re real.
... Are books not common?
but in this moment, the only thing he had eyes for was Nick.
Gay af
“Having a gay time now?”
Literally
“I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host.”
Theres the line
carrying a kind of gnawing weight that would eat at them unchecked for the rest of their lives,
spilling ticket stubs and receipts and dried flower petals everywhere.
ghost of Anabeth Baker
Like an ACTUAL ghost?
The party was winding down into a graceless mess,
I saw Nick’s hungry eyes on me as I walked away, and I could see as well the moment they turned from me towards Gatsby too.
when I could thread the steps to disaster together like glass beads on a string,
charms to prevent pregnancy,
Fantasy-core
my hands falling away from his like water.
Something missing in the eyes.”
Ominous
and I learned to laugh like the clink of champagne flutes,
It was like the moon had settled on the water, casting shards of light on the broken waves.
