ID Passages

Caroline or Change

“I’m the daughter of a maid,/ in her uniform crisp and clean!/ Nothing can ever make me afraid!” pg. 126

Pocket change change me, pocket change change me,/can’t afford loose change, can’t afford change,/changin’s a danger for a woman like me, pg. 116

The Scarlet Letter

Partly supported by Hester Prynne, and holding one hand of little Pearl’s, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers… pg. 232

“Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence. But indeed, he was blind and foolish, as he ever and always is.  A pure hand needs no glove to cover it!” pg. 143

The Great Gatsby

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. Pg. 109

…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light… pg. 20-21

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The positioning was the sculpting. He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me. Pg. 84

“But why just YES and NO?” “I only have two hands.” “What about ‘I’ll think about it’” and ‘probably’ and ‘it’s possible’?” pg. 257