VOICES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.
2 I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.
3 His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
4 As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.
5 The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
6 It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
7 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
8 Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.
9 It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees.
10 The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.
11 Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
12 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.
13 Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside.
14 I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.
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 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
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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