FIVE YEARS in Classic Quotes

1  The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

2  He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny at Little Girl Bay.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

3  One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

4  He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

5  I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then--and I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

6  One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  A brewer had built it early in the "period" craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5