LEAVES in Classic Quotes

1  The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

2  The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

3  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.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

4  And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

5  One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

6  I walked out the back way--just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before--and ran for a huge black knotted tree whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5