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“Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds.”

He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.
“The poor son-of-a-bitch,” he said.”

Very empathetic

“But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came.”

“I wanted to get somebody for him. I wanted to go into the room where he lay and reassure
him: “I’ll get somebody for you, Gatsby. Don’t worry. Just trust me and I’ll get somebody for you ——”

“So I walked away
and left him standing there in the moonlight — watching over nothing.”

“and only the dead dream
fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible,
struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”

I don’t like either Tom or Daisy at all

“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”

“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”

“There must have been moments even that afternoon whe Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.“

All problems of the characters would be solved if Nick and Gatsby were gay

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“Having a gay time now?”

Well I always have this time yk

The great Gatsby, book by Zelda Sayre and Scott Fitzgerald

This book is not for my taste rn I think I am gonna DNF it

“Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms, as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility-
“Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!”

“Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands,” cried the Professor, quite overcome.
Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, “Not empty now,” and, stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella.”

“I couldn’t help loving you if you were seventy!”

Mr Bhaer and Jo are such a funny and kinda cute couple lmao.
He is a lonely lil cozy funny man and the way he found her by her literary work is fitting too.
Again in the film their romance was so superficial and bland.

Daisy and Demy not being in the film is such a crime.

“Laurie, resolving, with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for the express benefit of young women with artistic tendencies.”

Again book Laurie >>>>>>>>>>>

“Don’t laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me.”

“Laurie had received many compliments in his life, but never one that suited him better”

Amy and Laurie in the book>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Book professor is so different from the film one.
He is not as gorgeous, he talks funny bc his English is not as good, he is little fat but very kind so people really love him.

Jo’s reaction to Amy and Laurie is so different from the film.
She accepted calmly, tho she realised that perhaps she only could have said yes when she was so lonely without her Beth.

“And that’s our cool, reserved, and worldly Amy! Truly, love does work miracles. How very, very happy they must be!”Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance”

“Laurie gathered up all Jo’s letters, smoothed, folded, and put them neatly into a small drawer of the desk, stood a minute turning the ring thoughtfully on his finger, then slowly drew it off, laid it with the letters, locked the drawer”

“Laurie thought that the task of forgetting his love for Jo would absorb all his powers for years, but to his great surprise he discovered it grew easier every day. He refused to believe
it at first, got angry with himself, and couldn’t understand it, but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. Laurie’s heart wouldn’t ache.”

Book>>>> >film

“The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well; for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more, so his promise to his grandfather, and his desire to be able to look honestly into the eyes of the women who loved him, and say “All’s well,” kept him safe and steady.”


Laurie did well to try to be better
In film it was reversed

“a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.”

:(

“because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”

“Amy did not know why he looked at her so kindly, nor why he filled up her book with his own name, and devoted himself to her for the rest of the evening in the most delightful manner, but the impulse that wrought this agreeable change was the result of one of the new impressions which both of them were unconsciously giving and receiving”

Amy wasn’t “all her life” in love with Laurie
it is only film thing