“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”
“...the physical pain from the bite of the belt is nothing, nothing compared to this devastation.”
“Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.”
“Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”
“Any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.”
“He's just a man names Gatsby.”