passages by Becca G

Gatsby: 

"I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool..." (17)

"It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too--didn't cut the pages." (46)

"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry." (88)

Scarlet Letter: "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." (197-198)

"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart."(46)

"But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."(43)


Caroline or Change:

"The Devil made the Dryer
  Everything else, God made." 

"A grown woman got no business
taking pennies from a baby"

"they ain't no underground
in Louisiana.
There is only
under water." ( I left my book at home so I can't look up the pg. numbers, but they are all said by caroline and the first two are in the very beginning) 

ELAIC: 
"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live." (184) (grandma to oskar)

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me." (181) (grandma about thomas sr)

"We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it" (81) grandmother about thomas sr. in a letter to oskar

-Becca