BLUES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was gas blue with lavender beads.
2 We all looked--the knuckle was black and blue.
3 Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their retinas are one yard high.
4 When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
5 About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light.
6 Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.
7 The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
8 In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
9 A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
10 He was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off.
11 A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
12 All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.
13 The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean--then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
14 While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
15 I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind and whenever this happened the red, white and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut in a disapproving way.
16 Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
17 A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer--the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night.
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