SHE WAS in Classic Quotes

1  By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

2  Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

3  Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

4  He couldn't possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

5  She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

6  I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

7  She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

8  At first I was flattered to go places with her because she was a golf champion and every one knew her name.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

9  The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken--she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

10  One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house--just as if it were five years ago.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

11  When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

12  Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing--and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

13  She had drunk a quantity of champagne and during the course of her song she had decided ineptly that everything was very very sad--she was not only singing, she was weeping too.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

14  You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive--and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

15  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

16  She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage, and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

17  But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7