Edna The Awakening Quotes & Sayings

She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. — Kate Chopin

The time will come when God has assembled a body of people who freely love Him, which will prove beyond any doubt that love is the most powerful force in the universe. With the triumph of love complete, God will then deal with Satan. — Pat Robertson

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. — Kate Chopin

Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease. — Kate Chopin

Time doesn't concern me. — Kate Chopin

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. — Kate Chopin

I don't call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife, and instead I get a schemer, plotting to pursue her own rotten ambition under the rubric of poetry . . . what a mockery, what a marriage. — Edna O'Brien

She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before. — Kate Chopin

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. — Robert Goddard

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. — Alaina Huffman

How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things. — Kate Chopin

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear. — Kate Chopin

Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided. — Kate Chopin

If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends. — Rainbow Rowell

The morning was full of sunlight and hope. — Kate Chopin

We all have things that we regret, thinks we wish we could change, but we can't dwell on them. — Julie Kagawa

She had resolved to never take another step backward. — Kate Chopin