Kate Chopin The Awakening Important Quotes & Sayings

Although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence. — Jonathan Franzen

What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines. — Doris Lessing

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now. — Anthony Horowitz

Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. — J.K. Rowling

Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it's over. But God is saying, Begin again. — Joel Osteen