LIGHT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Now it was again a green light on a dock.
2 Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light.
3 "I should change the light," he said after a moment.
4 "I wouldn't think of changing the light," cried Mrs. McKee.
5 The grey windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light.
6 When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
7 She turned her head as there was a light, dignified knocking at the front door.
8 They came to the door with me and stood side by side in a cheerful square of light.
9 Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
10 Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
11 We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park.
12 Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
13 Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
14 He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
15 For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened--then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
16 Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard.
17 The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
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