English Paper 2 Quotes

I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool

They were careless people — Tom and Daisy, they smashed things up and then retreated back into their money and let other people clean up the mess they had made

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water… I… distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, an idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay

I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I?

A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend

From now on, forget happiness. Now its just about saving the remains, the wreckage, the appearance

Voilà que Madame Ratignolle est jalouse

“Are those two married over there — leaning on each other?” 

“Of course not,”

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 am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier’s possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose