Kate Chopin Quotes

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.

I wonder if any night on earth will be like this one. It is like a night in a dream. The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings. There must be spirits abroad tonight.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

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

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, —the light which, showing the way, forbids it.