EYES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She narrowed her eyes and shivered.
2 When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
3 "I've got a nice place here," he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.
4 Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
5 Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.
6 But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
7 Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
8 Daisy took her face in her hands, as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.
9 The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly.
10 We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile.
11 Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
12 I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
13 If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it--indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
14 He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes and I couldn't keep my eyes off him but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head.
15 Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.
16 Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
17 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but 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 and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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