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The Chosen and the Beautiful QUOTES

The Chosen and the Beautiful QUOTES

1 " It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

2 " He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

3 " And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

4 " The night before her wedding, Daisy taught me that after the world ended, you still had to get up in the morning, and the things that you ruined would still be there, needing to be fixed. When I looked at famous Jay Gatsby, soul gone and some terrible engine he called love driving him now, I could see that for him, the world was always ending. For him, it was all a wreck and a ruin, and he had no idea why the rest of us weren't screaming. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

5 " There are women who will forgive a great deal for a moment of kindness from a handsome man, but Daisy and the other older girls who had taken me under their wings had taught me not to be one of them. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

6 " When I looked at famous Jay Gatsby, soul gone and some terrible engine he called love driving him now, I could see that for him, the world was always ending. For him, it was all a wreck and a ruin, and he had no idea why the rest of us weren’t screaming. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

7 " He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

8 " Yes,” I sighed. Sometimes, the only excuse for doing something stupid is knowing that you are doing it and being willing to accept the consequences. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

9 " The wind came into the house from the Sound, and it blew Daisy and me around her East Egg mansion like puffs of dandelion seeds, like foam, like a pair of young women in white dresses who had no cares to weigh them down. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

10 " Men had no idea how careless the women of their set weren't allowed to be. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

11 " There was a heat to her that put the day to shame, as if she were burning up with fever from within. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

12 " When you can't fix a thing, the best course of action can be to ruin it all so that no one can see what truly happened."
Nick laughed, and I wondered if that was what love was, making someone forget the pain that gnawed at them and would not stop. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

13 " He liked being shocked by the extravagances of the city, but he was not ready for the people that came with the wonder, who lived shoulder to shoulder with wonder and thus grew immune to it. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

14 " Down among the ashes, their faces and hands turned gray and grimy with the refuse of New York, I could see the men who lived and worked in the ash. It was their lot to shovel the ash that came in. It was a titanic struggle that I imagined they could only cope with by realizing that they were after an impossible goal and therefore were free to ignore it. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

15 " Aunt Justine once gave me some advice when I was newly come to New York. If I was going to be passing anything more than time in public with a man, I should always find out what happened when he heard no, whether it was from me, a taxi driver, a waiter, or his employer. “You may decide what to do after that,” she said, “but most times, your course of action will be clear. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

16 " We don’t have to do anything. We can just wait for fall. Life starts over again in fall. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

17 " When you’re alone so much, realizing that you’re not is terribly upsetting. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

18 " she needed to talk like other people needed to eat or to breathe. At some point, she realized that it didn’t matter at all what she said, and so she turned into a bubble of fashionable bon mots, non sequiturs, and giddy dizzy excitement. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

19 " Summer in New York goes by slowly until it goes by fast, "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful

20 " it was like being set adrift in a sea where I couldn’t drown, where all the monsters lurking in the depths rather liked me and wouldn’t upset my little craft. "

― Nghi Vo , The Chosen and the Beautiful