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I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. — Kate Chopin

Don't go; don't go! Oh! Edna, stay with me. — Kate Chopin

It must always have been God's day on that low, drowsy island, Edna thought. They — Kate Chopin

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

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. — Kate Chopin

She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks. — Kate Chopin

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. — Kate Chopin

But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself. — Kate Chopin

I hope you won't completely forget me. — Kate Chopin

One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul — Kate Chopin

What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves. — Kate Chopin

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood. — Kate Chopin

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. — Kate Chopin

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. — Kate Chopin

She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don't notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward. — Kate Chopin

Daisies, just starting to close their petals, littered the grass like fallen stars. — Kate Chopin

Have you ever heard the earth breath? — Kate Chopin

She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. — Kate Chopin

Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing. — Kate Chopin

I love you. Good-by--because I love you. — Kate Chopin

The heart jealous of the soul! — Kate Chopin

If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely their union. — Kate Chopin

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin

The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation. — Kate Chopin

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already.
Chopper Jim Chopin — Dana Stabenow

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water — Kate Chopin

The delicious breath of rain was in the air. — Kate Chopin

She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades to see if my wings were strong. — Kate Chopin

Time doesn't concern me. — Kate Chopin

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

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

She was just having a good cry all to herself. — Kate Chopin

Discover her appetite, and to see the relish with which she ate the — Kate Chopin

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. — Kate Chopin

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin

The delicous breath of rain was in the air. — Kate Chopin

She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. — Kate Chopin

When he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life's mystery. — Kate Chopin

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. — Kate Chopin

Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate. — Kate Chopin

There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. — Kate Chopin

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. — Kate Chopin

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

So the storm passed and every one was happy. — Kate Chopin

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. — Kate Chopin

One must possess many gifts ... which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover ... the artist must possess the courageous soul. — Kate Chopin

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies — Kate Chopin

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

The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it, he said. — Kate Chopin

The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. — Kate Chopin

She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun. — Kate Chopin

Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. — Kate Chopin

It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire. — Kate Chopin

It is bizarre to treat all differences as oppositions, — Kate Chopin

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. — Kate Chopin

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. — Kate Chopin

The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them. — Kate Chopin

A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter. — Kate Chopin

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion. — Kate Chopin

I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could help telling you so. — Kate Chopin

But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. — Kate Chopin

Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. — Kate Chopin

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty. — Cheryl Strayed

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

[ ... ] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. — Kate Chopin

Mrs. Pontellier liked to sit and gaze at her fair companion as she might look upon a faultless Madonna. — Kate Chopin

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

His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions. — Kate Chopin

By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. — Kate Chopin

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

And you have eyes the colour of beech leaves in October. Yet no one is ever allowed to look into them. — Kate Chopin

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it. — Kate Chopin

She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them. — Kate Chopin

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [ ... ]. — Kate Chopin

Good night. I adore you. Sleep well. — Kate Chopin

I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul. — Kate Chopin

Goodbye -- Because I love you. — Kate Chopin

I have said it before, but I don't think I have ever came so near meaning it. — Kate Chopin

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul ... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies. — Kate Chopin

But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait. — Kate Chopin

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence. — Kate Chopin

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly. — Kate Chopin

The eyes alone in the baby suggested the man. And — Kate Chopin

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. — Kate Chopin

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. — Kate Chopin

You are the embodiment of selfishness. — Kate Chopin

Youth is given up to illusions. — Kate Chopin

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. — Kate Chopin

Most women are moody and whimsical. — Kate Chopin

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. — Kate Chopin

Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before. — Kate Chopin

A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs. — Kate Chopin

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it. — Kate Chopin

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. — Kate Chopin