“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

—Kate Chopin, 1899

“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“'I love you,' she whispered, 'only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream…'”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”

—Kate Chopin

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life. ”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

“She wanted something to happen – something, anything: she did not know what.”

—Kate Chopin

“Even as a small child, she had lived her own small life all within herself.”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence.”

—Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”

—Kate Chopin

“She wanted something to happen – something, anything: she did not know what.”

—Kate Chopin
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