# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

> He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [The Great Gatsby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby.md)
- Page: 91
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Chapter_5) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/he-had-passed

## More from this book

> No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/no-gatsby-turned-out.md)

> Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone."

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/let-us-learn.md)

> "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!"
>
> He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
>
> "I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She’ll see."

p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/i-wouldnt-ask.md)