"An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a…"

"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a…"

"Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and un…"

"As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself."

"She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she …"

"Edna wondered if they had all gone mad, to be talking and clamoring at that rate. She herself could think of nothing …"

"The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she …"

"She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a pity for that colorless existence which never upli…"

"She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth."

"Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage."