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"For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capasity that brought him food and a bed." pg. 98
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"An instinct toward his future glory had led him some months before to the small lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota" pg. 99
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"He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny in Little Girl Bay." pg. 99
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"James Gatz-that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career- when he saw Dan Cody's yacht to drop anchot over the most insious flat on Lake Superior" pg. 98
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"And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby Left too." pg. 100
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"... Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later, Dan Cody inhospitably died." pg. 100
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"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking in a way that every young gitl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered it ever since." pg. 75
