QUOTES!!!

Caroline or Change

1. “And Larry need a package with cookies and stuff./ And Emmie want a T.V., she want everything,/ and Joe want candy, want a rat-fink ring./ And i want the night to stay/ nighttime forever/ so i can sit smoking her, so i never/ have to get up, go to work, be polite./ Go on to bed, Noah./ Stop botherin the night” (Kushner 47)

1. “She needs from me things i cannot provide:/ conversation, support, and a heart . . . Those all died./ I’ll stand here till...Noah has grown,/ he and i will lived here, in this house, all alone,/ and i’ll say to him, ‘Noah the moon shone so bright/ when she played her bassoon that last Chanukah night’” (Kushner 97). 

The Scarlet Letter

1. “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent,—as the figure, the body, the reality of sin” (Hawthorne 66-67).
2. “Now, at the death-hour, he stands up before you! He bids you look again at Hester's scarlet letter! He tells you, that, with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his own red stigma, is no more that the type of what has seared his inmost heart” (Hawthorne 209).

The Great Gatsby

1. “‘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).
2. “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—tomorrow 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” (Fitzgerald 180).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

1. “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” (Foer 165).
2. “The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did” (Foer 309).