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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
2 Gravely the men turn in at a house--the wrong house.
3 She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept.
4 Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand.
5 He excused himself with a small bow that included each of us in turn.
6 I started to turn away but he took a step after me and grabbed my arm.
7 But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined.
8 Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room.
9 She turned to Mrs. McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter.
10 But immediately she turned sharply from the window and leaning forward tapped on the front glass.
11 "Chester, I think you could do something with her," she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way and turned his attention to Tom.
12 His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
13 The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
14 We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
15 No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
16 He was employed in a vague personal capacity--while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.
17 When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
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