ROOM in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light.
2 Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
3 The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath.
4 A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
5 Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.
6 Looked at from a distance however the hen resolved itself into a bonnet and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room.
7 He had just shaved for there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone and he was most respectful in his greeting to everyone in the room.
8 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
9 The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean--then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
10 Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
11 Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
12 Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.
13 The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise--she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression--then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
14 The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
15 When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
16 Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.
17 A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
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