ROSES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I am not even faintly like a rose.
2 He rose up to his position in the East.
3 The voice in the hall rose high with annoyance.
4 You remind me of a--of a rose, an absolute rose.
5 Daisy rose, smiling faintly, and went to the table.
6 With an effort her wit rose faintly, "We'll meet you on some corner."
7 "I'm going to have the McKees come up," she announced as we rose in the elevator.
8 Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air.
9 It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.
10 When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
11 He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
12 At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
13 And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world.
14 Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
15 A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz and between the numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.
16 We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths--intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.