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“Boys like us always know one another about a thousand years before anyone else knows us, don’t we?”
Gatsby was in love with her instead of me, because in all such things, I would only prove a disappointment.
Don't say that :(
His smile was a needle of sun piercing a gray scrim of clouds. And perhaps it was this, how he could be touched by so small a compliment, that made me understand all he’d stored up in his heart.
This boy whose shoulders I held in my hands, I wanted him to have the shimmer of the whole world.
He looked at me with a birthday-candle sort of hope, and all I could say was “Of course.”
Smitten
I learned it was to my benefit to look a certain way. People treat a girl very differently depending on how she looks. Doors open that you didn’t even know could be doors because they always looked like walls.”
“Boys like us get used to having to lie about everything else just so we can tell the truth about ourselves.”
Patrons who—as the kind of boy I was, I couldn’t help noticing such things—seemed as though they might have been called boys at birth wore paillette-adorned gowns, thin brows, and dark lipstick.
I like this description.
The celebratory fever around us was the only explanation I had for why I kissed him. And it was the only explanation I could come up with for why he kissed me back.
Eeee :)
Tom pointed at Gatsby. “You’d better be careful with the sun—you’re almost as brown as Nick.”
That's when I'd start swinging but that's just me.
“I know that kind of man. He has no respect for propriety at all. Those parties of his, they just breed intermarriage between the races. All that mixing together.”
Wth
“Now don’t go looking at me like that,” Tom said. “I told you, you’re one of the good ones. I don’t think you’re as bad as the rest.”
...I want to kill him.
Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be.
“Fairy,” he said. “It’s a word I forgot to tell you about. It’s a word they use for boys like us. They mean it to be an insult, but I take it to mean there’s something magic about us and they know it.”
The world may look at you and see a pawn, but that just means they’ll never see your move coming.
