Thursday, May 23, 2013

quote ids


Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
  • “After only a few sessions it became clear that he was sculpting Anna. He was trying to remake the girl he knew seven years before. He looked at me when he sculpted, but he saw her” (Foer 83).
  • “So many rules, sometimes I can't remember what's a rule and what isn't, if anything is for its own sake, I'm leaving her today, is that the rule we've been organizing ourselves around this whole time, or am I about to break the organizing rule?” (Foer 108)

The Great Gatsby:
  • “What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” (Fitzgerald 150)
  • “They weren't happy...and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was the unmistakably air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” (Fitzgerald 145).

The Scarlet Letter:
  • “[He] noted all of these minute particulars, even while firmly convinced that the doom of his existence was stealing onward, in the footsteps which he now heard; and that the gleam of the lantern would fall upon him, in a few moments more, and reveal his long hidden secret” (Hawthorne 135).
  • “To his features, as to all other object, the meteoric light imparted a new expression; or it might well be that the physician was not careful then, as at all other times, to his the malevolence with which he looked upon his victim” (Hawthorne 141).

Caroline, or Change:
  • “You tippy-toe till you been paid./ You the spoiled one! A maid!/ I'll never be a queen, that's true,/ but I'm a damn sight better'n prouder'n you!” (Kushner 92)
  • “Caroline takes my money home!/ Now I know what they talk about/ at the Thibodeaux house, at suppertime./ Before it was a mystery./ Now they count my quarters and/ they talk about me!” (Kushner 56)

    P.S. PLEASE POST YOUR QUOTE IDS ASAP SO WE CAN ALL STUDY AND IF YOU DON'T I WILL LOOK UP YOUR ADRESS AND WE WILL COME AND HUNT YOU DOWN UNTIL YOU DO!!!!!!!! Thanks! You guys are the best and happy almost summer!!!

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