Quotes About Edna

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Because I had hankered to go back to America, my husband-to-be agreed that we could go there for a year, while the building work was being done.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, -a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by life's delirium. It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.

Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.

I never could act, Edna. And I detest Hamlet. Have you ever seen a production of Hamlet that didn't make you want to go home and put your head in the oven? I haven't. Oh, I thought our Hamlet was quite nice, said Edna. Because it was abridged, said Peg. Which is the only thing Shakespear should ever be.

Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor.

Infinity Came down and settled over me; Forced back my scream into my chest, Bent back my arm upon my breast

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

Enoch knew that the gods would hunt them down as soon as they discovered the family was gone. They did not stand a chance, but he had to try. He had no other choice. Stay and certainly die, or run and probably die. When Methuselah arrived at the gathering point with Edna, Enoch glared with disapproval. Methuselah stared him in the eye and said, "Would you prefer she marry the gods?" Enoch stubbornly refused to answer as they moved on through the passageway. His son was right.

Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff? - Aunt Edna

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.