Sample+Important+Quotations

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//Like Water For Chocolate// by Laura Esquivel


 * Quote #2: ** "While you were gone, I had relations with a man I've always loved, and I lost my virginity. That's why I can't marry you anymore"
 * Speaker: ** Tita
 * Significance: ** In this quote Tita expresses her true love for Pedro, and chooses him over John. She picks Pedro over John, who is a renowned doctor and tells John that she has always loved Pedro.


 * Quote #2: ** "While you were gone, I had relations with a man I've always loved, and I lost my virginity. That's why I can't marry you anymore"
 * Speaker: ** Tita
 * Significance: ** In this quote Tita expresses her true love for Pedro, and chooses him over John. She picks Pedro over John, who is a renowned doctor and tells John that she has always loved Pedro.

**Quote #2**: “My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; just as an experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help” – John **Significance:** Becomes a future theme for rekindling Tita’s lost love and soul.

//Like Water For Chocolate:// (Laura Esquivel) malte 1: “Though she didn’t know how to read or write, when it came to cooking she knew everything there was to know.” (4) Speaker: the narrator Alex and Esperanza's son Significance: It describes Tita's character and strengths and weaknesses in one sentence. In addition, the whole book is about cooking in one way or another so being very good at it helps.

//Oedipus Rex// by Sophocles

**Quote #1**: Listen to me. You mock my blindness, do you? But I can say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: you cannot see the wretchedness of your life, nor in whose house you live, no, nor with whom.” –Teiresias
 * Significance**: The archetype of a fortune teller: blind, yet seeing much farther and clearer than any other man. Gives the first hints that the prophecy that hung over his head as a young man came true, despite Oedipus’ efforts to avoid them, and foreshadows Oedipus gouging out his eyes, which, despite their perfection, could not show him the truth. Perfect example of dramatic irony.


 * Quote #1: ** "Swinging my club in this right hand I knocked him, out of his car and he rolled on the ground. I killed him. I killed them all" (Sophocles 42).
 * Speaker: ** Oedipus
 * Significance: ** This proves its was not a mistake that he killed the men. Oedipus even admits he brought his own downfall onto himself. It not only proves Oedipus is eligible for one of the traits of a tragic hero, but in addition, Oedipus admits to his wrongdoing.
 * Quote #2: ** Let them all hear it. It is for them I suffer, more than for myself," (Sophocles 7)
 * Speaker: ** Oedipus
 * Significance: ** This quote shows how King Oedipus treats his subject as equals, earnings the respect. of his people. It shows how he is an honorable king.

Oedipus Rex Author: Sophocles. Quote: But his command is plain, The parricide must be destroyed, I am that evil man Significance: The importance of this is that he is saying he is the evil one. This is happening when he finds out he is the murderer. Opedipus says this

"Stop, my children, weep no more. Here where the dark forces store up kindness both for living and the dead, there is no room for grieving here—it might bring down the anger of the gods."

Significance: This quote comes at the very end of the book. The chorus is saying how Oedipus' downfall occurred and why it did. They were suggesting that Oedipus Rex had a tragic downfall because he rose too high in power.

//Things Fall Apart// by Chinua Achebe "His whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness." (page13) Noah Boskey


 * Quote #1: ** "Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men usually had." (Achebe 16)
 * Speaker: ** Narrator
 * Significance: ** Shows that Okonkwo came from a poor family. This is an important point because as a result of him growing up in a poor family, he becomes eager to succeed.


 * Quote #2: ** "His enemies said his good fortunes went to him head" (Achebe 31)
 * Speaker: ** Narrator
 * Significance: ** Tells the reader that Okonkwo's success has gone to his head.

**Quote #2**: "A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone." –Okonkwo
 * Significance**: Foreshadowing, that despite Okonkwo’s great physical strength and stoutness, these traits are what lead him to his lonely end. Window into cultural beliefs of the time.

"We cannot bury him." (Achebe 208) John Evans This is representation of how their society treats those who take their own life.

//Persepolis// by Marjane Satrapi (Malte) 1. "The ministry of education has decreed that universities will close at the end of the month" (73). Speaker: News Author: Marjane Satrapi Significance: This describes one of the major conflicts in the book. In addition, it shows what chaos a new gov't creates 2. "I couldn't bear looking at them there behind the glass. Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying" (153). Speaker: Marjane Author Marjane Satrapi Significance: This is part of the resolution and Marjane is trying to teach a lesson. Saying goodbye is not always easy.

 Quote:as it is turned out they did retake Khorramshahr, We all thought that the war would finally end. Speaker: Marjane's Significance: The war was a major part throughout //Persepolis//, and when it finally came to an end, or so they thought, it was a big relief.

//The Sound of Waves// by Yukio Mishima (Malte) 1. "There was a girl he had never seen before (7). Speaker: narrator Author: Yukio Mishima Significance: This already gives the author an idea what the book is about. 2. "Shinji's the one I'm adopting for Hatsue's husband" (174) Speaker: Terukichi Author: Mishima Significance: The resolution officially

//Macbeth// by William Shakespeare ​Quote 1:All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! The speaker is the third witch. The significance is that this is what drives Macbeth to kill Duncan

(Malte) 1. "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" (17) Speaker: Macbeth Author: Shakespeare Significance: We talked a lot about it in class. It is very famous. Excellent example of Shakespeare's language 2. "We have scorched the snake, not killed it" (93). Speaker: Macbeth Author: Shakespeare Significance: it is the reason he kills Banquo