Quotes

Scarlet Letter

·        “In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A” (47).

·        “Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified” (96).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

·        “If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent” (30).

·        “…the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river,  I was the tree, the world was the river” (16).

Caroline, or Change

·        “Nothing happens under ground in Louisiana. Cept in this house, cept here, cept here…This house got a basement” (12).

·        “From now on if you find change in his pockets, when you do the washing, just keep it, just keep it, if he leaves it, it’s yours” (49).

The Great Gatsby

·        “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg” (23).

·        “But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room” (89).