The+Awakening+Chapters+19-23

"Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissive in his wife. But her new...resolved never to take another step backward." (pg. 81)

"It moved her with recollections. She could hear again the ripple of the water...weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn." (pg. 82)

"'I do not know you well enough to say. I do not know...soul that dares and defies." (pg 89)

"She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back. They were lost amid...drifting into the unknown." (pg. 98)

"'How handsome Mrs. Pontellier looked!" said Madame Lebrun to her son. "Ravishing!" he admitted. "The city atmosphere has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman." (pg. 86)

"Edna felt that if there had been a message for her...she wished to find Mademoiselle Reisz." (pg 85)