The+Awakening+Chapters+34-39

"She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,-not withy any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference." pg 146

"He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom. There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning." pg 146

"Because you were not free; you were Leonce Pontellier's wife." pg 149

"You have been a very, very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both." pg 150

"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." pg 150

"There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-but no matter-still, I shouldn't want to trample upon the little lives." pg 154