5 Lines to Live By - 2022 by Diana Watson https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby Pull together your Book Forms from the year. Choose 5 of the most meaningful quotes you’ve collected - quotes that “speak to you” in one way or another. Create 5 tiles/notes that include the quote (with citation) and your reason for choosing it (how it speaks to you) en-us 2022-04-30 17:28:33 UTC 2022-05-04 05:15:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168498956 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168498956 Catcher in the Rye https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168500758 "“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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168500758 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168501529 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168501529 TEWWG https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168501603 "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]]> 2022-05-03 15:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168501603 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502453 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502453 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502586 “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

]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502586 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502720 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168502720 All The Light we Cannot See https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503634 “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.


]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503634 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503954 "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]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503954 The Alchemist https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503971 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168503971 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168504734 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168504734 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168504794 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168504794 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168505083 "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]]> 2022-05-03 15:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168505083 Great Expectations https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168505724 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168505724 Mrs. Dalloway https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506266  “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506266 The Bluest Eye https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506561 ”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

]]> 2022-05-03 15:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506561 The Joy Luck Club https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506699 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506699 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506979 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168506979 Emma https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168507451 “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]]> 2022-05-03 15:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168507451 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168508090 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168508090 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168508465 "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?]]> 2022-05-03 15:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168508465 A Thousand Splendid Suns https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168509659 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168509659 Emma https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510331 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510331 The Awakening https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510378  “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"]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510378 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510558 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510558 Little Women/Good Wives https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510575 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510575 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510650 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510650 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510895 "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.

]]> 2022-05-03 15:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168510895 The Bluest Eye https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168511489 "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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168511489 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168511654 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168511654 The Alchemist https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168512001 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168512001 twelfth night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168513458 “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.



]]> 2022-05-03 15:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168513458 All The Light We Cannot See https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168514628 “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.




]]> 2022-05-03 15:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168514628 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168514768 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168514768 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515107 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515107 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515508 “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]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515508 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515939 "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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168515939 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516107 “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. 


]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516107 The Joy Luck Club https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516615 "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)]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516615 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516693 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168516693 Where the Crawdads Sing https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517144 “‘Unworthy boys make a lot of noise’” (183).

(some) men are trash]]> 2022-05-03 15:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517144 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517429 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517429 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517521 "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.

]]> 2022-05-03 15:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517521 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517983 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168517983 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168519502 "For you, a thousand times over" (Hosseini 371). This quote made me cry.]]> 2022-05-03 15:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168519502 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168520431 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168520431 Great Expectations https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168520478 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168520478 Invisible Man https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168522188 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168522188 The Joy Luck Club https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168522989 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168522989 Middlemarch https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523195 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523195 Great Expectations https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523243 “You should know… I am what you have made me.” (Estella, pg 338)
Estella was right and she should say it. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523243 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523254 ."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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523254 Joy Luck Club https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523689 “...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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168523689 Middlemarch https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526474 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526474 TEWWG https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526652 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526652 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526743 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168526743 Emma https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168527283 “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.


]]> 2022-05-03 15:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168527283 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168528960 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168528960 A Separate Peace https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168529366 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168529366 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168529434 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168529434 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531310 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531310 Emma https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531441 "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*. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531441 Mrs. Dalloway https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531473 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168531473 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168532202 “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

]]> 2022-05-03 15:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168532202 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168533802 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168533802 Mrs. Dalloway https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168533904 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 15:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168533904 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168534563  "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]]> 2022-05-03 15:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168534563 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168536754 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 15:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168536754 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168538602 "-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 :)]]> 2022-05-03 15:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168538602 Wide Sargasso Sea https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168857780 "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. 


]]> 2022-05-03 19:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168857780 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168864411 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 19:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168864411 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168925593 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168925593 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168926790 "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]]> 2022-05-03 20:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168926790 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168927626 "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.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168927626 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168928117 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168928117 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168928919 “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


]]> 2022-05-03 20:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168928919 The Alchemist https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929102 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929102 Where the Crawdads sing https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929552 “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929552 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929693 "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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929693 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929757 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
]]> 2022-05-03 20:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929757 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929999  "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.

]]> 2022-05-03 20:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168929999 The Secret Life of Bees https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930063 “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.


]]> 2022-05-03 20:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930063 The Women of Brewster Place https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930074 “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?]]> 2022-05-03 20:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930074 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930352 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168930352 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931094 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931094 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931504 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931504 Pocho https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931621  “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931621 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931761 "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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931761 handmaids tale https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931789 "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. 



]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931789 TEWWG https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931828 “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]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931828 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931928  “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.


]]> 2022-05-03 20:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168931928 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932369 "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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932369 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932418 “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]]> 2022-05-03 20:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932418 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932626  “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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932626 The Handmaid's Tale https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932906 “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.



]]> 2022-05-03 20:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932906 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932953 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168932953 handmaids tale https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933078 "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. 


]]> 2022-05-03 20:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933078 frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933517 "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. 


]]> 2022-05-03 20:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933517 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933788  “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.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933788 Joy Luck Club https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933933 “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.]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168933933 Bone https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934244 “Disappearing is Leon’s way of dealing. He needs time away. On a ship, on a job, he’ll be okay” (Pg. 57)


This quite allows for the understanding of how all people treat strife in their life differently. This can be used in many prompts as it is something that connects to family and how they need to accept that they are all different, but understanding each other is what is important.]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934244 The Blind Assassin https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934399 "She can tell he’s taken pains with the bed - changed the sheets or at least the pillowcase, smoothed out the faded Nile-green chenille spread. She almost wishes he hadn’t, because seeing this causes her a pang of something like pity, as if a starving peasant has offered her his last piece of bread. Pity isn’t what she wants to feel. She doesn’t want to feel he is in any way vulnerable. Only she is allowed to be that" (Atwood, 111). This really shows the characterization of the woman, and it stands out so much because of the current Great Depression situation the woman grew up with, and it really makes it real life and shows the readers how to interpret the characters and that the characters are kind of like real people. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934399 where the crawdads sing https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934466 “Female fireflies draw in strange males with dishonest signals and eat them; mantis females devour their own mates. Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers.”
  • Kya never understood human behavior, being in the marsh alone for so long, she barely understood what love is. Kya did on the other hand understand what nature is and how it works. This is important because throughout the book we see key elements shown an examples in nature because that was how Kya understood it herself. 
]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934466 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934478 "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!" (Shelley 107)

This quote contributes to an overarching theme through the novel and is a reflection of the time period it takes place in by exemplifying scientific idealism and its consequential dangers.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934478 TTTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934492 “The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it’s not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war.” (58). Okay so I love this paragraph. I love the idea that it would have been braver to not go to war then to go to war. It would have been harder for him in the long run, but he would have preserved his innocence that he clung onto during the war. Also, it is an interesting idea because so many soldiers are applauded for going to war as being brave and courageous, however, O’Brien is arguing that it would have been more brave not to that. It isn’t necessarily the main them, but it is still a theme, the idea that you should stand for what is right, what you believe in, and over and over O’Brien fails to do that, and it’s an interesting recurring theme that happens.]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934492 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934643 “He talked about a few of the guys who were gone now, Curt Lemon and Kiowa and Ted Lavender, and how crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.” (O’Brien 148)

This quote underscores the theme of storytelling and honoring memories by giving further life to those who died in the war. O'Brien first gave new life to the dead by telling a story about Linda, his first love who died from cancer, and by writing about her, then tells a story about the dead soldier he killed, and finally hears a story told about Lemon, Koiwa, and Lavender, allowing him to start to process their death and remember them as if they were still alive. 
]]> 2022-05-03 20:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934643 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934865 “O Time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.” (Act 2, Scene 3, Line 40) 
I like the personification of time, and the attitude of willing to accept the fate that comes, rather than trying to figure it out for oneself. In context, it also makes sense for the characters to give up on trying to figure out the tangled web of characters.]]> 2022-05-03 20:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934865 Frankenstank https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934905 "... even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone," (167, using pdf) - Frankenstein's Monster

Both the comparison and contrast are very powerful, encapsulating the entirety of Frankenstein's Monster's existence.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168934905 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935226 “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.” (Lahiri, 67)
This quote was impactful because it stated just how impactful parents are on their children and how hard it is to go against our parent's wishes sometimes

]]> 2022-05-03 20:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935226 The Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935570 “Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist. Yet the thought of the eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace,” (Lahiri 289)
Gogol realizes that he no longer resents his name and what it represents to him. He knows that he owes a lot of his development to the name, and couldn’t imagine his life without it.]]> 2022-05-03 20:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935570 The Handmaid's Tale https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935743 “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Far lot of good it did her. Why fight?” (Atwood 225)
Atwood used latin to convey the message "Don't let the bastards bore you down" and is one of the guiding mantras for the protagonist. I enjoyed this novel and remember this quote as a major theme.]]> 2022-05-03 20:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935743 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935808 "Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, once it has once seized to it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand" (123). I kind of relate to this, but also know that I should absolutely never feel like this in my life. I also love the lichen thing because it's so camp lol. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935808 The Blind Assassin https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935875 “ I say ‘her’ because I don’t recall having been present, not in any meaningful sense of the word. I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed of only what I remember.” (Atwood 239) I think this quote is a great representation of guilt and the pain of looking back at the past. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935875 A Passage to India https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935936 “‘It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear’” - Nawab Bahadur (31). 

This aged incredibly well. With the advent of the internet, and long distance communication and interaction becoming one of many new social norms, this quote resounds more than ever.]]> 2022-05-03 20:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168935936 Dreaming in Cuban https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168936482 “They were a kind of poetry that connected her to larger worlds, worlds alive and infinite.”

Herminia Delgado describes the connection of her best friend, Felicia Villaverde, to the spiritual practices and rituals of Santeria. In the context of Santeria, Felicia is able to integrate the visionary powers that drive her to destructive madness. Without the form of those rituals, these connections cease to be beautiful and poetic and merely cause disintegration and chaos. This expresses the soul's need for creativity and expression in order to survive and thrive.


]]> 2022-05-03 20:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168936482 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168936660 "They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity" (O'Brian 14). What a raw line; this is where I realized that the book was very serious about war, and this was when I could feel how much stress and worry they were carrying.]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168936660 The things they carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937128 “Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believe in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait. ”
  • This last quote explains what the war made the men, as it states, “not human anymore”. Showing the magnitude of the effect the war had on them. 
]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937128 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937131 “Henry Dobbins was silent for a time. He smiled at the older monk, who was now cleaning the machine gun's trigger assembly.” (O’Brien 84)

This quote I found to be particularly impactful as it highlights how in tense situations even without understanding language people can become good friends and learn how to respect eachother. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937131 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937143 “Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish, which was terrible” (Hurston, pg. 79)
This quote was one of the most impactful quotes in the book to me, this quote was Janie realizing just how much her comment meant to him and the impact. She stands against the masculinity that Joe has and it's a really powerful moment]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937143 the NAMEsake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937185 “And then the young woman tells her that the patient, Ashoke Ganguli, her husband, has expired. Expired. A word used for library cards, for magazine subscriptions.”. This is one of the greater “falls” in the book. It ends up causing the end of Gogol and Maxine’s relationship because of the differences in cultures and the resulting divide. It is also important because of how drastically it changes things for Ashima, who is now alone for the first time in her life. This moment, while tragic, begins the process of reunification for the Ganguli family, just without the dad.]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937185 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937294 “It struck her impersonally as if it were a judgment someone else was delivering, someone American and important, like Dr. Fanning: she was pretty” (Alvarez 181).
This quote stuck with me because of how resoundingly heartbraking it is to read. Sandi says this as a young girl, revealing how life in America has crushed her perception of her own culture.]]> 2022-05-03 20:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168937294 The Road https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168938614 “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” (McCarthy, 204).
This quote was meaningful because it was one of the moments where the child started to lose his innocence and wonder that a child usually has, this led to a huge change in the character development, for both the dad and son


]]> 2022-05-03 20:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168938614 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168939127 “Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. ‘Thank you but I don’t want.’ Baba said. ‘ I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much Mrs. but I don’t like it free money.’” (Hosseini 130) This quote shows that morals and pride can overcome the powers of societal pressure and money.]]> 2022-05-03 20:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168939127 America is in the Heart https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168939476 “It was another discovery: my first clash with the middle classes of the Philippines. [...] I was one peasant who did not crawl on my knees and say ‘It is all right. It is all right…’” (Bulosan 38).

This was the first autobiography I read and this quote was the first glimpse of Bulosan wanting to fight against the oppression. This quote was important to me because I really enjoyed this novel.]]> 2022-05-03 20:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168939476 handmaids tale https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940019 "Perspective is necessary, otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise, you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face...otherwise, you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be."
  • Similar to the theme of identity, perspective is very closely related. Throughout the novel, we see lots of perspective shifts. This can first be seen with the commander, while he was a tough guy, he also had a soft spot of Offred. This continues as we see Serena also offer Offred a picture of her daughter in order to have her hook up with Nick. This entire idea of perspective is wrapped up into this quote as it shows there are always many different perspectives to one thing. 
]]> 2022-05-03 20:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940019 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940032 "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). I enjoy the imagery created here, and the implication that knowledge is ever-growing, and can thrive with proper nourishment.]]> 2022-05-03 20:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940032 Dreaming in Cuban https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940051 “We can see and understand everything just as well alive as dead.”

Jorge del Pino speaks these words to his daughter Lourdes Puente from beyond the grave in their final conversation. Lourdes doesn't need her deceased father's help any longer, because she has the same ability to see the truth that he does, if only she can find the courage to confront it. This expresses the deepened connection between father and daughter. And evolves on the idea of coming of age and maturing in relationships with others, and even after death she still carries what he father said with her.


]]> 2022-05-03 20:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940051 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940681 "...it looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords." (Hurston 122)
I just loved how dramatic this line is because of the severe disconnect between Janie and Joe at this point in their relationship.]]> 2022-05-03 20:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168940681 Wuthering Heights https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168941001 ”'He is not ENVIOUS, but EMULOUS of your attainments. He'll be a clever scholar in a few years” (171). 

there is a meaningful distinction between jealousy and admiration. If you look up to someone you should be working to emulate what they are doing instead of futile envy.]]> 2022-05-03 20:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168941001 Namesake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168941640 “‘What's Calcutta like? Is it beautiful?" The question surprises him. He is accustomed to people asking about the poverty” (Page 134)

In this quote leads to a deeper understanding of how it is leading to betterment for all people. Not only that but it also promotes a better understanding for all leading to cultural love even if they themselves are not involved.]]> 2022-05-03 20:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168941640 Twelfth Night https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942150 I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say there was never man thus abused.”(IV.ii). Again, this is Malvolio, but this is at the peak of his character arc, where the fool is trying to convince him that he is insane, but Malvolio knows that he isn’t crazy. He then makes a connection that the surrounding darkness is like madness surrounding him that he is resisting to let affect him. This addresses a new take on a theme of the book about identity and staying true to one’s self. We have Viola who is hiding herself, and absolutely winning, and Malvolio who is sticking to what he thinks is true, and is absolutely losing. It is an interesting perspective that Shakespeare is taking on truth of identity that I do not agree with.]]> 2022-05-03 20:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942150 America is in the Heart https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942698 “It was only long afterward in a land far away, long after these conflicts were conquered and forged as a weapon against another chaos that threatened to plunge me into despair and rootlessness, that the full significance of our tragedy burst into a flaming reality and drove me, suddenly and inevitably, into the struggle for the fulfillment of the redeeming qualities which I believed were inherent in me.” (Bulosan 29). 
This is one of my favorite quotes of the novel. As a future foreshadow, we see the protagonist understanding his mistakes and growing beyond it. The quote conveys part of the message as well, noting the struggles and eventual triumph as an immigrant in America.]]> 2022-05-03 20:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942698 The Namesnake https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942887 “Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died, his mother yelling at him when he forgot one day and had a hamburger at school. 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 only seen a few times in his life.” (Lahiri 180)

This part of the book marks a turning point in terms of identity. Ashoke’s death ended up being the catalyst for Gogol’s acceptance of his complete identity. With identity being such a powerful idea even nowadays, it makes it very powerful.


]]> 2022-05-03 20:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168942887 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943195 "Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent" (Foer 110). This quote I find to be extremely revealing and depressing of the protaganist's grandfather, the sentiment of which I can appreciate. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943195 The Blind Assassin https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943669 "only the blind are free" (pg.11)
I like this quote because it justifies ignorance. Sometimes it is freeing to just not know, to not stress about things. Of course we still view ignorance with a negative connotation, but this quotes gives an alternate perspective on ignorance.]]> 2022-05-03 20:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943669 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943673 “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?"

This quote describes the importance of nurture on human nature and that we are all victims of society which makes us villainous. 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. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168943673 The Kite Runner https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168945619  “People raised their heads from their platters, called out their congratulations. Kaka Faruq patted my back with his clean hand. I felt like sticking a knife in my eye” (Hosseini 86)

This quote is a great example of the crippling guilt Amir felt after not standing up for Hassan in the alley that night. Despite everyone being happy around him, he can’t endure the overwhelming pain he feels for Hassan and the blame he puts on himself. It can be connected back to how his father is finally proud of him, but Amir feels that he is a phony and know one knows it.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168945619 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168946109 "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."

This quote is spoken by Victor, and it is important because it refers to one of the recurring themes in the book: nature. Often, when Victor finds himself in the deepest distress, he cites nature's splendor as the only thing that can console him. He talks about Switzerland's beauty, and even the monster talks about nature's beauty as something that has the ability to calm him down. The tug of war between the "omnipotence" of nature and the selfishness of man is present throughout the book, and this quote illustrates the sheer power of the natural world and the influence it has upon Victor Frankenstein.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168946109 TTTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168946172 "When a man died, there had to be blame” (O'Brien 169). 
This reflects the very common need to let nothing go unblamed-- everything must have a reason and a purpose. In war especially, this is a feeling shared by many, and this quote is reflective of that.]]> 2022-05-03 20:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168946172 https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168947762 2022-05-03 20:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168947762 Their Eyes Were Watching God https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948099 "You can't blame her for puhtectin' herself" (pg 190)
I think this quote is really meaningful to both the novel and life, to always put yourself first. Women especially are ridiculed for independence and caring for themselves, and this quote says it is ok to. ]]> 2022-05-03 20:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948099 Secret Life of Bees https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948148 "There was no difference between my 🤬 and June’s. That’s what I thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. 🤬 was 🤬."

During her first night at August’s house, Lily becomes aware of June’s racism toward her as she overhears June talk to August. June’s attitude toward her gives her pause; Lily has never been on the receiving end of racism, and she feels confused. Lily reasons that her body is the same as June’s; they both function the same way, so she wonders how they could be considered different. Lily must learn to navigate this inherent irrationality of racism as she experiences being a “minority” in August’s home.
]]> 2022-05-03 20:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948148 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948573 “Even if it was relatively insignificant, it was something, and I needed to do something, like sharks, who die if they don't swim, which I know about.” (40).

Oskar doesn't know how to cope so he does the best he can to distract himself and just keep moving forward with what little he has.]]> 2022-05-03 20:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168948573 https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168949339 2022-05-03 20:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168949339 Frankenstein https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168949675 “You are my creator, but I am your master--obey!” - The Creature (172)

This is the RAWEST line in the book]]> 2022-05-03 20:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2168949675 America is in the Heart https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2169407747 ”It is my own rice and land. Is it possible son?’ My father stopped and looked eagerly into my brother’s eyes. ‘Can a stranger take away what we have modeled with our hands?”’ (Bulosan 55)
This quote is spectacular as it outlines the battle of the impoverished and the rich while simultaneously expressing the emotions this battle evokes.]]> 2022-05-04 05:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dnwatson1/5linestoliveby/wish/2169407747