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
“She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don’t notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Step by step she lived over every instant of the time she had been with Robert... She recalled his words, his looks.… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in… — 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
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
“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
“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 Image
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.” — 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 thereon. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
