Age of innocence key quotes Flashcards
Newlands deep and recurring love for Ellen
‘Each time you happen to me all over again.’
Newland’s progressive but contradictive views
‘Women should be free- as free as we are.’
Ellen on society
‘The real loneliness is living among these kind of people.’
May dies with not a bad view on the world
‘She had died thinking the world a good place.’
Newland’s final line
‘It’s more real to me here than if I went up.’
May’s confidence growing after marriage
‘I couldn’t have spoken in this way before we were married.’
May’s comfort in tradition
‘We shall be happier in a place where everything’s already settled.’
May on her pregnancy
‘I’ve been sure since this morning.’
Newland describes a miracle woman
‘How this miracle of fire and ice was to be crated.’
Newlands sad self-portrait
‘He saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.’
Newlands change in character after marrying May
‘His former self.’
Reminds us of the relation between Ellen and Newland
‘Your cousin.’
