Quotes About Pontellier

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Kate Chopin

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

Kate Chopin

#6. 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

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

Kate Chopin

#9. 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

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

Kate Chopin

#11. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Nicholas Sparks

#12. When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

John Darnielle

#13. Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Kate Chopin

#15. 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

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

Kate Chopin

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

Kate Chopin

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

Kate Chopin

#19. I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

Garth Brooks

#20. 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

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

Kate Chopin

#22. I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Lance Armstrong

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

Kate Chopin

#24. I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

Cardinal Richelieu