‘Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean towards her’ | pg. 8 |
‘Each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again’ | pg. 8 |
‘Sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face’ | pg. 11 |
‘A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek’ | pg. 55 |
‘Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty’ | pg. 57 |
‘Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily’ | pg. 59 |
‘Daisy tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion: it had gone beyond her, beyond everything’ | pg. 62 |
‘At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower’ | pg. 71 |
‘You always look so cool’ | pg. 75 |
‘She realised at last what she was doing- and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all’ | pg. 84 |
‘Oh you want too much! I can’t help what’s past, I did love him once- but I loved you too’ | pg. 84 |
‘Gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor’ | pg. 94 |
‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness’ | pg. 114 |
The Great Gatsby- Daisy Buchanan QUOTES
March 30, 2020