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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages.
2 I hadn't asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss Mr. Jay Gatsby.
3 By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house.
4 "Ask Myrtle," said Tom, breaking into a short shout of laughter as Mrs. Wilson entered with a tray.
5 The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour.
6 First time I saw him was when he come into Winebrenner's poolroom at Forty-third Street and asked for a job.
7 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.
8 I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
9 But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel.
10 About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby's door and asked him if he had anything to say.
11 Next morning I sent the butler to New York with a letter to Wolfshiem which asked for information and urged him to come out on the next train.
12 It was dark now, and as we dipped under a little bridge I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner.
13 Once he stopped and shifted it a little, and the chauffeur asked him if he needed help, but he shook his head and in a moment disappeared among the yellowing trees.
14 They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone.
15 I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply.
16 Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.
17 As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
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