A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She slept but a few hours. They were troubled and feverish hours, disturbed with dreams that were intangible, that eluded her, leaving… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely their union.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything. The conditions of her life were in no way… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't… — Kate Chopin Copy Share
