Chapter 5 quotes Flashcards
‘The flowers were…
… unnecessary, for at two o’clock, a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s with innumerable receptacles to contain it’
‘The exhilarating…
… ripple in her voice was a wild tonic in the rain’
‘Luckily, the clock…
… took a moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place’
‘He literally…
… glowed; without a word or gesture of exhilaration, a new well-being radiated from him’
‘Her throat full…
… of aching, grieving beauty’
‘I think he revalued…
… everything in his house according to the measure it drew from her well-loved eyes. […] none of it was no longer real’
‘It makes me…
… sad because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before’
‘Now it was again…
… a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished one by one’
‘I’d like to just…
… get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around’
‘There must’ve…
… been moments that afternoon where Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion’
‘That voice was…
… a deathless song’
