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“But when we know the grounds and the authors of it, Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge Of thine own cause.” - Olivia (V.i.347-349)
This just feels like a universal quote for overcoming personal injustice in life. Some comfort after a hard year.

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"“All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood under the roof of the carousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a while.” (275). The image of Holden Caulfield standing underneath the rain is baptism and the start of a new life for him.

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“Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time.”
(Hurston 184)
This quote is meaningful to me because it’s a really nice way to look at love, to thank someone for the good that they have brought into your life.

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"He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom - a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God." (pg 101)
This is a quote that describes the intensity and excitement of her new love. It's a new beginning

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"But this too is true: stories can save us… But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world” (pg. 213).
I liked the idea that stories allow individuals to feel human and find something to connect with even in their darkest moments.

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“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place , nothing positive, no dreams of honor or glory, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” ( page 20).

This quote just feels very powerful. It is a good quote to explain the actions of the ment rhoughout the novel

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“Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died…He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life…Now, sitting together at the kitchen table…his father’s chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense” (180).
This just really establishes Gogol's growth as well as for all of us and how death can be awful but help us learn more about ourselves and those around us.

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“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” (469).
Marie-Laure says this toward the end of the novel. She has had to be brave all her life and she is sick of hearing about how brave she is. She wants people to understand that being blind makes her no different, she is not weak because of a disability, she simply does what she needs to, just as anyone else would do.

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"I'm Nikhil" he says for the first time in his life. He looks at Kim, his eyebrows furrowed, prepared for her to challenge him, to correct him, to laugh in his face.
But Kim accepts it gladly. "Nikkhil", she says, blowing a thin plume of smoke towards the ceiling. "I've never heard that before. That's a lovely name." (p.96)

sdlfkjsldfkh this makes my heart melt because this is probably the first time Gogol/Nikhil has experienced acceptance in the novel, and he just falls apart???? he's completely taken aback and sees the world in a whole new perspective after this part lol

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“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”- The Alchemist (119) States what everyone knows but often is ignored as it is true and people don't want to acknowledge it.

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“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.” (239)

This quote conveys how people may perceive their life as not perfect, and I believe one should enjoy and see the beauty in life not being entirely perfect.

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"One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experience from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!" (107). Fire being hurtful is one of the first things that a young toddler learns, so to have it be one of the first things the monster learns shows how he is progressing and becoming better.

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"These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.  Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?  He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike" (p122)

We heart the duality of man

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“I’ll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self- humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world…” (Miss Havisham, pg 267)
This is a great insight into the character of Miss Havisham and her broken psyche. It's meaningful because it shows that love isn't always easy or healthy.

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“There was an emptiness about the heart of life”. (31).
A universal message/idea that can then be taken into a broader theme and context. Even though Mrs.Dalloway has a good life she still feels empty and unsure about life itself. That no matter what she will never be able to fill that void that emptiness inside herself.

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”But she has seen interest, disgust, even anger in grown male eyes. Yet this vacuum is not new to her. It has an edge; somewhere in the bottom lid is the distaste. She has seen it lurking in the eyes of all white people. The distaste must be for her, her blackness…He hesitates…not wanting to touch her hand…Outside she feels the shame ebb…To eat the candy is to somehow eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary jane. Be Mary Jane” (Morrison, 49-50).
This quote is important because it shows an understanding of prejudice from even a young girls eyes. The effects are clear too, Pecola wanted to become Mary Jane to escape these experiences

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“Most people didn’t know I was half Chinese, maybe because my last name is St. Clair. When people first saw me, they thought I looked like my father, English-Irish…But if they looked really close…they could see the Chinese parts…my mother gave me my eyes, no eyelids…I used to push my eyes in on the sides to make them rounder. Or I’d open them very wide” - Lena St. Clair (106-7)
This just reminds me of my mother's experience growing up. She was a bit ashamed of being Hispanic, so she liked having a non-Hispanic last name. But she learned over time how wonderful her heritage is and has instilled that in me.

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“Am I to be thought the only criminal when all humankind sinned against me (The creature, pg. 224)?"
I like how this quote highlights the evils of society and how it describes the importance of nurture on human nature and that we are all victims of society.

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“It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct without an intimate knowledge of their situation” (146).

Very good advice. People should be less judgey

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“But instead he takes a deep breath and tells the people in the courtroom what he has never dared admit to his parents. ‘I hate the name Gogol,’ he says. ‘I’ve always hated it,’” (Lahiri 102).  Being disconnected from one's culture is a more common sentiment among people who live between two cultures, so it makes Gogol more relatable.

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"What is love? Tis no hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter:
What's to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty:
Youth's a stuff will not endure." (II, III, p3)

shakespeare really exposed us all here lol, what is love?? and why do we think we get to decide what it looks like?

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“Besides, they’ll laugh at you in school. They will. They’ll call you a harami. They’ll say the most terrible things about you” said by Nana (Hosseini 19).
Being an illegitimate child creates a lot of hardship for Mariam. She is never fully accepted by her father and his wives which is completely unfair to her as she has done nothing to them but be born. She is automatically thrown to the bottom of the social pyramid in society and is even married off at age 15 to Rasheed because her father, specifically his wives, would rather send her away than face the chattering of the town.

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“The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself: these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.” (Austen, pg 1)
Emma is a story about the dangers of thinking too highly of oneself and acting on their heightened sense of self.

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“Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children, or for any one… ‘I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself. I can’t make it more clear; it’s only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.” (p.53)

SLAY independent woman moment here, saying that she does love her kids, but that doesn't mean she's not going to try to preserve her own identity separate from "[kid's name]'s mom"

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“She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world…” (Hurston 76).
This speaks to me because books can hide our deepest secrets.Things we didn't know could be imaginable.

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“Then I don’t feel as if I’d wasted my life. I’m not so good as you make me, but I have tried to do right; and now, when it’s too late to begin even to do better, it’s such a comfort to know that some one loves me so much, and feels as if I’d helped them” - Beth to Jo (Good Wives 146)
This quote was given by Beth as she was passing away, and it shows that her goal in life was to be kind and helpful to others. That should be everyone's goal in life.

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“They were actors. When someone died, it wasn’t quite dying, because in a curious way it seemed scripted” (O’Brien 19).
Because the emotional things they carried were so heavy, death did not seem real to them. To most of them, war was their first experience of death. Their youth was stripped away and this trend of loss in the war often made them rationalize it in different ways. They would shake hands with the dead and make jokes and it showed how the war was internally fracturing them.

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"She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again. Then she starched and ironed her face, foring it into just what people wanted to see, and opened up the window and cried ‘Come heah people! Jody is dead” (Hurston, 87).

This quote focuses on the duality of true feeling an outward expression. It shows how Janie has had to fake for the town to be a good "Mayor's wife". Yet, the reality is, she is happy his big voice will no longer shut hers down.

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"Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (20).
I think this quote is significant to the novel because it demonstrates society's distaste for individuals labeled "other" and also demonstrates how the characters internalized this horrible perception.

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“The boy traced a route to the sea with his finger…Is it blue? The sea? I don’t know. It used to be” (McCarthy 182). The boy does not know a lot about the old world, so the father has to tell him that the sea used to be blue, showing how we need parental guidance in the beginning of our lives.

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“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present.” Camel Driver (73) This quote states a truth that many people forget and causes them to worry about the past and future but miss everything that is happening in the present.

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“How easy is it for the proper false In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, For such as we are made of, such we be. How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly, And I, poor monster, fond as much on him, And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me. What will become of this?” (Act II, Scene II, page II, Lines 27-34).

This quote is said by Viola. This is during her monologue where she tells the audience she lied about the ring and admits she finds herself in a dilemma. She realizes that Olivia does not want Orsino, but wants her, while she believes she is falling in love with Orsino. She talks about how hopeless and weak she feels as a woman because she cannot help but love this man who she cannot have. It links to how the love in the story begins as messy and unclear.

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“Etienne has stopped feeling nauseated in the afternoons; his vision has stayed clear, his heart untroubled…he feels unshakeable; he feels alive” (331).

When Etienne finally decides to join the French rebellion, he finally feels free from a lot of his anxiety. He starts to feel like his life is worth living and has a purpose. He is no longer just a man who feels trapped in his problems, he is now helping a cause he is passionate about.

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“This guy wants to talk about it, but he can’t”(151). Seeing how PTSD affects people and the stories the wish to tell. The stories from inside themselves. Even though they wish to get the words out, they can't. No matter how hard they try, they just can't. Relating back to the idea that in order to move on, to feel, to go forward people have to talk about what they've been carrying with them. Their story.

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“Yeah, Jody, don’t keer whut dat multiplied cockroach told yuh tuh git yo’ money, you got tuh die, and yuh can’t live.” (86). Janie is finally standing up for herself after years of being beaten down by her husband, which provides hope to everybody in all sorts of terrible situations.

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“Love is lak de sea. It’s a movin’ thing” (191).

I like how Janie learns that love is a fluid thing, and that it looks different for every situation and relationship

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"He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I’d ever loved anyone, and I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake." (Hosseini 105). This quote provoked a very emotional response at this point in the novel. It reflects the ideas of betrayal, selflessness and sacrifice.

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“Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?" (The creature, pg. 224). This demonstrates the ease in which all of the characters blame the monster and view him as evil, without considering what made him this way.

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"My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. She opened Popo's mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. She fed her this soup, but that night Popo flew away with her illness. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain." (p.21)

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“In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt. All the fears that circumstance could provide and the heart feel, attacked her on every side” - Narrator (108)
Doubt just loves to attack a lot of things! This is just such a relatable quote because I have doubted myself a lot this year.

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“Gogol, he's been tempted to tell his father on more than one occasion, was his father's favorite author, not his. Then again, it's his own fault. He could have been known, at school at least, as Nikhil.” (67)

I believe that this is a great quote that exemplifies how one may be selfish and not grateful of much, and the way Nikhil learns to appreciate his name later in the book is something truly special.

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“‘Unworthy boys make a lot of noise’” (183).

(some) men are trash

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"I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection." , pg. 4, Walton

Shows the importance of friendship and how having one improves life.

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"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine" (The Creature, Pg. 222).

This quote is significant as it emphasizes the theme of nature versus nurture. The Creature was initially kind-hearted, but society treated him as a monster. Therefore, he became who people made him out to be.

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"For you, a thousand times over" (Hosseini 371). This quote made me cry.

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“Why, “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them" (Act 5 Scene 1).
I found this quote interesting because I like how universal it is in that you can be born great, thrust into it, or achieve it on your own.

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“Heaven knows we need never to be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlying our hard hearts.” (Pip, pg 178)
It's ok to be upset and it's healthy to let it out by crying.

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“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer" (Ellison 15).
This quote means a lot to me because, in a world full of opinionators and know-it-all's, its important to remember yourself and how it only matters what you think and feel despite the odds.

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“The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I am not.”
I ADORE that she finally stood up for herself. Girl Boss moment.

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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. “ (Evans, Chapter 7)
People need to have more nuance when dealing with subjects and broaden their understanding of it.

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“You should know… I am what you have made me.” (Estella, pg 338)
Estella was right and she should say it.

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."During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes shut to the horror of my proceedings. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands." (Page 169)

This is honestly a quote that I get reminded of when I feel like I start overworking, and have to step back and really grasp that I can't just work my life away and have to take a step back and enjoy the smaller things in life.

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“...who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined a safer place...But in the briefest moment I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was really there...as she waited patiently for her daughter to let her in” (203).  How much do we interpret wrong about others and their intentions??  I think this is especially applicable to children and their parents, as many times the child can misinterpret the parent’s intentions of protection as something else.  Many times it is hard for us to see what is really going on because we hide behind a wall of false reality.

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“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”(Evans, Chapter 72) Sometimes people are just naturally bad but that doesn't mean they can't try to change.

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“Oh to be a pear tree-any tree in bloom!”(11)
I just like the idea of her turning into a tree and then that being the end of the book. No trauma just tree. Wish life could be like that no feelings just become something else.

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"Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost" (O'Brien, Pg. 59-60).

This quote is successful in conveying the feeling of your life flashing before your eyes as you die. It's both solemn, but peaceful.

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“Emma recollected, blushed, was sorry, but tried to laugh it off.” (Austen 245) -Narrator/emma. -This quote is important because its interesting to how Emma reacts to disissing Jane. She at first feels bad for how she reacted to her but then she shakes it off and plays like she did nothing wrong. The drama.

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“She got to be a better shot than Tea Cake. They’d go out any late afternoon and came back loaded down with game” (131).
I loved Janie's development here and I thought her becoming a better shot than Tea Cake demonstrated how healthy and loving their relationship was in comparison to her past relationships.

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“I was laughing so hard it hurt my stomach and I could feel my face getting more and more flushed; I dug my teeth into my fist to try to gain control and then I noticed that there were tears all over my hand” (Knowles 183). I liked this quote because it was the first time this character really expressed their pent up emotions and managed to come to terms with the guilt he felt.

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"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt the sensations of  hunger, thirst and heat!" (Shelley, 123).
This quote describes how every individual is unique and has a story and a background and a past and how we are so much more than just animals surviving due to our cognitive nature, which is important and beautiful as everyone is a product of their own environments.

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“I hated him for making me stop hating him.” (190)
let hate go. life is too short to let hatred ruin good things for you.

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"I cannot make speeches, Emma:"---he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.---"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. ---You hear nothing but truth from me---I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.---Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover.---But you understand me." (p. 385)

men written by women are *chefs kiss*.

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“Did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely” (9)
I just liked this line, I myself am terrified of not knowing what comes next after we die. I'm not sure what to believe, and I don't know for sure if there is anything after this life. I just would want to see my mom again that's what I know for certain.

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“My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God” (77)

I think it is important to keep family and friends close and to always help each other, as having people close to you to take care of is truly beautiful

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"Well,' he said, 'if I may ask, why did the man kill his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad and shed tears? Couldn't he have just smelled an onion?" (Pg. 27).

This quote highlights the irony of storytelling. I think we, as writers, think our stories have to be complex and thematic. However, the beauty of storytelling is that you can write about anything. Plus, I thought the quote was funny when I first read it.

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“He did not want to die. Life was good” ( 149).  Sometimes this is a mood other times not so much. But don't worry I won't die I'll just keep internally screaming.

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"Besides she liked being lonesome for a change” (pg 90)
i like being alone as well. it gives you the time to think on things and just enjoy yourself through naps

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"I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (Hosseini 77). I hate society. This character is so scared and self-preserving that he would sacrifice his closest friend just because the society he lives in says that his friend is inferior and does not deserve to live.

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"-Because we're the good guys. -Yes. -And we're carrying the fire. -And we're carrying the fire. Yes. - Okay" (McCarthy, Pg. 129).

Good quote :)

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"There is no looking glass here and I don’t know what I am like now … The girl I saw was myself but not yet quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us - hard, cold, misted over with my breath" (162). Mirrors are my favorite extended metaphor because I love in literature when aestheticism falls flat on it's face. And also wen I look in the mirror I get the same dissociation so same miss girl same.

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"He started to call the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up" (204). This moment in the Road is one of my favorites because the roles finally reverse. The father is finally seeing color, yet the boy becomes closed off. It's basically a death scene, but instead of a true stark death it's one of moral gray, and I basically live in moral gray lol.

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“I could not stay behind you: my desire, more sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth; And not all love to see you, though so much as might have drawn one to a longer voyage, but jealousy” (Act III Scene 2). This was said by Sebastian and he's a queer icon so I have to love him. If someone said this to me I'd literally swell up and burst cause I'm a hypertonic cell to it's hypotonic environment.

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"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge...Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock" (Sheally 123)
This quote means something to me as it shows the knowledge that one gains that can destroy them

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"The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve. The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side- the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence- and I ceased to fear." (97)

This shows the subline nature of this time period and is very reminiscence of it.

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"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge...Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock" (Shelly, 123). The struggle that this poor guy goes through because of what's happening around him is really relatable especially during times of high stress and concern.

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“The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadows were gray and solid-looking around the barn” (Hurston, pg. 31)
The imagery in this quote was really expressive of how Janie felt at this moment. It was an expression and feeling that does not necessarily have a specific title but definitely a tone or mood and this quote expresses this greatly

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“But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor” (Coelho 39)
The novel spends most of it's time conveying this message, and speaks a very positive idea to follow one's dreams.

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“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”

Like a mother, the marsh provided for Kya, giving her everything she truly needed in life. While she did rely on herself most of the time, Kya had a motherly figure in the Marsh. This in the end became key as it helped her develop into who she is and remains one of the main themes of the book, how surrounding affect people.

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"The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve. The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side- the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence- and I ceased to fear" (97). The imagery, the pure emotion of trying to get away really stands out, especially since the book is written in first person and is usually more of the mental instability of Victor.

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The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with patience." (Pg. 218)

This shows the luck of nature and chance that is present throughout the novel

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"Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart so that you shall curse the hour of your birth." (Shelley 175)
The quote is representative of a person who has completely lost their hope in humanity and the consequences of this failure.

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“And she lay down with her son and sank into a timeless sleep. Times passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the consciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.” (35). This is the key point in Mattie’s story, the whole theme of her story. That one event can change your life forever, and more importantly, that you can let your whole life slip away from you. That if you spend all your time living for one thing, which is giving you nothing in return, then what exactly is the point of it all? She spends  her whole life for Basil and for what?

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“As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched it puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my [pee] and June's. That's what I thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. [Pee] was [pee].” (88)

This quote is a 14 year-old child's description of her overcoming her subconcious racial prejudices.

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"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in it's meshes! She called in her soul to come and see" (193). Okay so this is my favorite quote because the concept of it is so camp and stupid, yet works perfect. In the beginning there was the ship reference, and now at the end she is guiding her own ship. It's like a long voyage finally satisfied.

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“One eye was shut. The other was a star-shaped hole” (118)." This is a brutal depiction of war and death. The guy got shot in the eye and one eye was peaceful and the other one was destroyed.

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“What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you’re leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?” Tim O’Brien (54).
I loved this quote because it shows the crippling indecision that manifests at important turning points in life. Those moments are so important that it's hard to know what will ultimately be the right decision.

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“I do not talk to you about some things because I treat you like a man, boy. And a man must find out some things for himself, inside himself. You are one person, and I am another person, and I would do you a great wrong to teach you what I feel because to you it should only be important what you feel.” (Villareal 85) This quote is meaningful because it proves that you must independently find your purpose it cannot be given to you by someone else.

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"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants, and glutted myself with their shrieks and misery" (138) The pathos, the emotion, the palpable hurt and betrayal that Creature is feeling is brought out of the story and given directly to the reader; it shows just how much he's been hurt, something that Victor didn't focus on during his story. By far my favorite part.

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"I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will . . . Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping."

- This quote, similar to the last details, is more about identity. In the novel the handmaids lose all sense of self, they are stripped of their rights and even their own body. Here we get an inside look on Offred’s view on her body before being a handmaid and now after. This quote specifically details the process of having bodily autonomy and after and how it affected the girls view of themselves.

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“Oh to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing to the beginning of the world” This shows her hopes to grow and discover new relationships, specifically marriage."

This is a very oxymoronic statements when you know how the story goes

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“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, / And to do that well, craves a kind of wit.” (III.i.). This quote is from Viola about the fool. He is often considered the smartest person in the play, and yet he is a fool. But this works well for him because he can read people extremely well, which then means he can make fun of them in a precise and effective manner. This also leads to his quips giving important insight to the rest of the characters in the play and their emotions, and their thought process. As Olivia appreciates the fool, this also means that she is intelligent enough to recognize his skill as a tool to read others and to get insight into herself and leads her to make better choices. Basically the book therapist.

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"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge...Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock" (Shelley 123).
The sudden revelation and pride the creature felt was very inspiring and positive. This novel affected me by watching an organisms growth in knowledge.

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“The stones of the piers were stained well above the river and the bend of the river was choked with great windrows of black limbs and brush and the trunks of trees” (McCarthy, 44)
This quote really expresses the state of the environment and setting in the novel. The setting was impactful, especially in the cotext of then novel

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“My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabbie like tinkers at this time of night?”(2,3,87)
This quote shows the reader the true Malvolio, we are led to believe he is strict but this is one of the first instances as the audience that we see his true character. Significant to the plot, later in the play a deception is made to make Malvolio seem like he is mad. This all stems from the servants under  Malvolio being angry at his strict rules.

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“For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her. Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby. We meant it, which is the bad part. I used to think well of myself. I didn’t then.” (pg. 72)

This quote highlights the emotional manipulation that the women had to go through in the Red Training Center. They were conditioned and taught to blame women for getting raped and showing emotion, which rewired their minds to believe that it is a women’s responsibility to not attract predatory men. This is the fundamental teachings of Gilead that is just a step towards dehumanizing women, which let them take their rights and freedoms.

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“I would go to the war – I would kill and maybe die – because I was embarrassed not to.” (O’Brien 57) This quote is representative of the pressures of society and the insensitivity during war.

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"We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."(chpt.10)

- While this quote isn't related to a single theme, it goes to the overall message of the book. The entire republic of gilead was created when overthrown by the sons of Jacob, and there could be some question if people tried harder, would that still happen? Nonetheless, she is telling the readers here how she feels about handmaids, some people ignore, but it isn't ignorance, people have to work at ignorance.

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"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants, and gave glutted myself with their shrieks and misery." The Monster (pg. 138)

After spending almost a year in the hovel beside the DeLacey Cottage the monster attempted interaction and failed miserably. This quote is important because it is the true breaking point of the monster. It is this interaction which is the cause of his lack of hope for his inclusion in society. This quote is also the first time that the monster speaks of violence in retribution for his pain.

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“Gogol says nothing. He has not read the story himself. He has never touched the Gogol book his father gave him on his fourteenth birthday. And yesterday, after class, he’d shoved the short story anthology deep into his locker, refusing to bring it home. To read the story, he believes, would mean paying tribute to his namesake, accepting it somehow. Still, listening to his classmates complain, he feels perversely responsible, as if his own work were being attacked” (Lahiri 92).

Once Gogol changes his name to Nikhil it is easier to block out his parents’ concerns and pleas because he has created a new identity for himself that is separate from his old friends and family. It is a big step that Gogol takes to declare his independence and take control of his life.

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“Next time win more, lose less”
“Ma, it’s now how many pieces you lose.. Sometimes you need to lose pieces to get ahead.”
“Better to lose less, see if you really need.” (Pg 49 Lindo and Waverly Jong)

The mom doesn't understand chess but thinks nothing less than perfection is permissible.