Passages Luisa Lestz

Caroline, or Change – 

“My madness rise up in a fury so wild and I let myself go./Spoke my hate to a child./Pennies done that. Pennies done that./Pocket change…/Pocket change change me, pocket change change me” (116).

“I’m the daughter of a maid./She stands alone where the harsh winds blow:/Salting the earth so nothing can grow/ too close; but still her strong blood flow…/…down to Larry and Emmie and Jackie and Joe” (127).   

The Scarlet Letter – 

“But, as matters stand with my soul, whatever of good capacity there originally was in me, all of God’s gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment. Hester, I am most miserable!” (175).

“…and as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled” (234).

The Great Gatsby – 

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (179).

“It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too—didn’t cut the pages.” (46) 

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – “I told them, ‘Yeah, so I invented a device that would detect when a bird is incredibly close to a building, and that would trigger an extremely loud birdcall from another skyscraper, and they’d be drawn to that. They’d bounce from one to another’ ” (250).

“I put my head to the side, I rested it on her shoulder, she put her hand on my cheek, just like my mother used to, everything she did reminded me of someone else…my eyes were closed and I kissed her, her lips were my mother’s lips, and Anna’s lips, and your eyes, I didn’t know how to be with her and be with her” (281). 

 I really don't want Lydia to hunt me down...