HEART in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
2 His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own.
3 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
4 No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
5 Perhaps their refusal took the heart out of his plan to Found a Family--he went into an immediate decline.
6 It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart.
7 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
8 Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
9 Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.
10 She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
11 I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
12 When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
13 Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.
14 This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.