Pontellier's Quotes

#1. I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not.

Kate Chopin

#2. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

Kate Chopin

#3. Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Kate Chopin

#4. Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. I learned that on Tralfamadore.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Kate Chopin

#6. Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#7. And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world. Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better.

Kate Chopin

#8. Goliath always has a weakness; an ant is small but can defeat an elephant.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#10. Or maybe Jason's right: there are perfect people, many of them, and it's up to you to grab one when you find each other in the random chaos of life and love.

Lauren Morrill

#11. If one of the little Pontellier boys took a tumble whilst at play, he was not apt to rush crying to his mother's arms for comfort; he would more likely pick himself up, wipe the water out of his eyes and the sand out of his mouth, and go on playing.

Kate Chopin

#12. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Kate Chopin

#13. In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Gerald F. Lieberman

#14. She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Kate Chopin

#15. Mrs. Pontellier liked to sit and gaze at her fair companion as she might look upon a faultless Madonna.

Kate Chopin

#16. How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things.

Kate Chopin

#17. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#18. Baby, take me home. Take me to our home. Please.

Alex Morgan

#19. When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. Pontellier no trace of that morbid condition which her husband had reported to him. She was excited and in a manner radiant.

Kate Chopin

#20. It would have been a difficult matter for Mr. Pontellier to define to his own satisfaction or any one else's wherein his wife failed in her duty toward their children. It was something which he felt rather than perceived, and he never voiced the feeling without subsequent regret and ample atonement.

Kate Chopin

#21. The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

Pentti Linkola

#22. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Kate Chopin

#23. Meditative prayer does not do violence to our rational faculties. Neither does it confine us solely to the rational. We descend with the mind into the heart.

Richard J. Foster

#24. You Can Meet Someone Who Can Change Your Life In The Space Of A Year, In The Space Of A Month Or A Week.

Joseph Morgan

#25. I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

Lauren Mayberry

#26. I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Myrtle Reed

#27. Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.

Kate Chopin

#28. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Kate Chopin

#29. Be doers of the word, and not merely hearers. (James 1:22 NRSV)

John Ortberg

#30. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.

Kate Chopin

#31. Harry, we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron, still giggling feebly. "Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus - ha ha ha -

J.K. Rowling