More Quotes

Caroline or Change

1.)   pg. 92

CAROLINE

You can’t talk to folk like that.

EMMIE

Talk to white folk what you mean.

CAROLINE

Lord I raised a spoiled brat.

They your boss! You ain’t a queen!

Gonna get yourself knocked flat,

mouth off round white folk like that.

2.)   pg. 104

NOAH

CAROLINE!

GIVE IT BACK!

CAROLINE!

I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

There’s a bomb!

President Johnson has built a bomb

special made to kill all Negroes!

I hate you, hate you, kill al Negroes! Really! For

                        true!

I hope he drops his bomb on you!

The Scarlet Letter

1.)   pg. 143

“And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves, henceforward,” remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling. “But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? A great red letter in the sky,--the letter A,--which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof!”

2.)   pg. 130

“The minister well knew—subtle, but remorseful hypocrite that he was!—the light in which his vague confession would be viewed. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived. He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!”

The Great Gatsby

1.)   pg. 48

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

2.)   pg. 180

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—
   

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

1.)   pg. 165

“Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and incredibly close. Maybe twenty of them. Maybe more. But they also seemed like just one bird, because somehow they all knew exactly what to do. Mr. Black grabbed at his ears and made a bunch of weird sounds. He start crying—not out of happiness, I could tell, but not out of sadness, either.”

2.)   pg. 216

“When your mother found me in the bakery on Broadway, I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here…Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me.”