Wide Sargasso Sea quotes Flashcards
“He says he has always wanted to be a….
king, so he is very happy to be a king of the place where I was born.”
“I am not a romantic person, I…
have always been a bit of a realist…and I find that Antoinette is romantic.”
“I did not know that….
I was mad until they told me.”
But she pushed me away, not….
roughly but calmly, coldly, without a word, as if she had decided once and for all that I was useless to her.”
The house was falling apart…
the shutters were falling off.”
: “We were…”
cut off from everything.”
“All Coulibri Estate had gone…
wild like the garden, gone to bush.”
He hates me now. I hear him every…
night walking up and down the veranda. Up and down. When he passes my door he says. “Good-night, Bertha.” He never calls me Antoinette now. He has found out it was my mother’s name.”
“Bertha is….
not my name. You can trying to make me into someone else, calling me by another name.”
his clipped wings failed him and…
he feel screeching. He was all on fire.”
“I hated the…
mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour…Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness.”
“I felt as though I were a…
prisoner in the house.”
“The house was dark and gloomy…
with long corridors and hidden rooms.
“Everything here is so…
different from what I knew.”
