Daisy & Tom... and Gatsby

I've just re-read the F Scott Fitzgerald's classic and am once again under the spell of the romantic roaring 20s...here are some of my favourite snippets and quotes...

 

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
- On first being intoroduced to Gatsby and one of his lavish parties, Chapter 3 


The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way every young girl wants to be looked at some time...
- Gatsby's charm rubbing off on Daisy before her marriage to Tom, Chapter 4

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
- Gatsby showing Daisy around his mansion, Chapter 5

The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea.

“Look at that,” she whispered, and then after a moment: “I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”
- Daisy Buchanan after being reunited with Jay Gatsby, Chapter 5

I absolutely can't wait to see Baz Luhrmann's remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and supermodel, Gemma Ward http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2011/08/31/gemma-ward-lands-role-in-the-great-gatsby