Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: kiss flower the-great-gatsby
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: f-scott-fitzgerald the-great-gatsby
So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: f-scott-fitzgerald the-great-gatsby
Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: prose lovely the-great-gatsby
He's just a man names Gatsby.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anti-climax.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: the-great-gatsby
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