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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden.
2 "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn.
3 "If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby.
4 Gatsby's eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
5 As the waiter brought my change I caught sight of Tom Buchanan across the crowded room.
6 The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.
7 The child, relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly into her mother's dress.
8 The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
9 As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.
10 He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own.
11 Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
12 He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
13 A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool.
14 Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money.
15 But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.
16 The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.