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Here ya go, Lydia:

Caroline or Change:

“I’m the daughter of a maid,

in her uniform, crisp and clean!

Nothing can ever make me afraid!...

For change comes fast and change comes slow but

Everything changes!” (Kushner 126)

My sorrow go where my heart grow calm.

When you stop breathing air you get

Oh so calm,

No fire down there

So it’s calm calm calm

And there’s never any money

So it’s very very calm

But you miss

Oh you miss

The sun and the moon and the wooden bassoon” (124).

The Scarlet Letter:

“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,–and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss” (Hawthorne 184).

“Pearl kissed [Dimmesdale’s] lips. A spell was broken…The wild infant… had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human job and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it” (234).

The Great Gatsby:

‘“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand” (Fitzgerald 110).

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (17).

Extremely Loud:

“…I told him my idea”. He wrote, “Why would you want to do that?” I told him, “Because it’s the truth, and Dad loved the truth.” “What truth?” “That he’s dead” (321).

“I wanted to be with him.

Or anyone.

I don’t know if I’ve ever loved your grandfather.

But I’ve loved not being alone” (309).