“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. — 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
“I wonder if any night on earth will be like this one. It is like a night in a dream. The people… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the water oaks bent from… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near,… — 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
