Gatsby Quotes - Attraction and Desire Flashcards
“There was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since.”
Chapter 1, Page 8, middle-2/3rds down
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
Chapter 1, Page 8, middle
[Nick describing a moment with Jordan] “Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding sign, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms”
Chapter 4, Page 52, top
[Gatsby] “He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realise how extraordinary a ‘nice’ girl could be.”
Chapter 8, Page 95, 1/3rd down
