It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

“I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets… I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)