The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction Quotes

“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude ; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction

“Hope follows on the heels of Faith. And the white-winged goddess—which is Hope—did not leave her, but prompted her to many little surreptitious acts of preparation in the event of the miracle coming to pass.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction

“Since I was a girl I always felt as if I would like to write stories. I never had that ambition or shine to make a name; first place because I knew what time and labor it meant to acquire a literary style. Second place, because whenever I wanted to write a story I never could think of a plot.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction

“Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction

“He fell in love, as men are in the habit of doing”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction