1.      “For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelling me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk” (14).

2.      “He had changed since his New Haven years.  Now he was a sturdy, straw haired main of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a superscilious manner.  Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.  Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and your could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.  It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body” (7).

3.      “The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.  It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.  He was a blond, spiritless man, anæmic and faintly handsome.  When he saw us a damp gleam of hope spring into his light blue eyes” (25).

4.      “She had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin which stretched tight over her rather wide hips as Tome helped her to the platform in New York.  At the news-stand she bought a copy of “Town Tattle” and a moving picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume.  Upstairs in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine” (27).

5.      I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.  I was sure that they were all selling something: bonds of insurance or automobiles.  They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key” (42).

6.      “Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side—East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully one guard against its spectroscopic gayety” (45).