Anne Bollmann (Annelise Lestrange)’s Reviews > Elektra > Status Update

"Of all the years I've waited, it's these final weeks that are the slowest, these last few days when my impatience is ravenous, when it gnaws away at my peace of mind and shreds any semblance of calm I might have. But however excruciating the wait might be, there is a sweetness in its sting, a euphoria in the anticipation." - Elektra, p 219

"In the ghostly dawn, we [women] ranged again at the city walls, useless spetactors gathered atop the ramparts, waiting for our fate to be decided. The monotony of it, day after day for ten years, the helpless despair that pinned us there to watch - could it break at last?" - Cassandra, p 167

"She [Helen] might seem as though as she understood, but I knew that if I told her, if I let her glimpse even a fraction of the insight that shattered my mind, she would find a way to skate over it, to ignore the truth of it, to hear something else in its place." - Cassandra, p 119

"I was glad, so passionately grateful, to have problems before me that had solutions, to set my mind on something with a purpose and an answer: anything to stop it wondering down dark and winding tunnels to a place I could never reach in search of something I could never have." - p 114, Clytemnestra

"I weighed his words. I found them light, insubstantial. I thought he spoke sincerely, but I could see he was a man of romance and idealism. Such a man speaks poetry in place of facts and thinks he tells a higher truth when all he spins is fantasy." - Cassandra, p 67-68

"With all of my heart, that was what I wanted. To be something other than myself; to speak in someone else's words instead of my own." - Cassandra, p 37