GIRL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl.
2 "She's a nice girl," said Tom after a moment.
3 She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
4 She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.
5 "She had a fight with a man who says he's her husband," explained a girl at my elbow.
6 "The last one was the one I met you at," answered the girl, in an alert, confident voice.
7 "There's something funny about a fellow that'll do a thing like that," said the other girl eagerly.
8 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.
9 I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
10 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
11 Something in her tone reminded me of the other girl's "I think he killed a man," and had the effect of stimulating my curiosity.
12 So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York--or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car.
13 The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white.
14 We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.
15 She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.
16 The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
17 I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.
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