Edna Pontellier Quotes

“There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“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 Awakening

“She had resolved to never take another step backward.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant, was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“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 Awakening

“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, The Awakening