It was in the midst of her secret great passion that she met him. Quote 6: 'Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.' Chapter 6, pg.

Quote 5: 'The voice of the sea is seductive never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.' Chapter 4, pg.

It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. Quote 4: 'The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?' Chapter 3, pg. Quote 3: 'He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. Quote 2: '.looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.' Chapter 1, pg. His beard was neatly and closely trimmed.' Chapter 1, pg. His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. He was a man of forty, of medium height and rather slender build he stooped a little.

Quotes from the awakening