World Literature Set Texts Quotes 2

"I seen the little lamp."

• A Visit

• Words

• The Doll's House

• In the Mountains

"She was a tiny wishbone of a child, with cropped hair and enormous solemn eyes - a little white owl."

• The Doll's House

• Mrs Sen's

• The Plantation

• Promenade

"To the children, the fortune-hunters presented hearty entertainment."

• Mrs Sen's

• In the Mountains

• The Plantation

• Promenade

"For the first time she embraced him, clasping his face to her sari, surrounding him with her odor of mothballs and cumin."

• The Plantation

• A Walk to the Jetty

• The Doll's House

• Mrs Sen's

"And she stepped into the yard and shooed them out as if they were chickens."

• Words

• Mrs Sen's

• The Doll's House

• The Plantation

"We are living in a fool's dream, he told his fellow delegates..."

• Words

• A Visit

• Promenade

• A Walk to the Jetty

"Through the door he heard a waterfall of voices."

• Words

• A Visit

• The Plantation

• The Doll's House

"I never remember the dreams when I wake, for days afterwards they seem to weigh me down with the obscure bitterness of a loss which should have been prevented."

• A Walk to the Jetty

• The Plantation

• Words

• A Visit

"Such things, I know, could never fulfil my more obscure longings. I'm happy to run in place."

• The Doll's House

• A Visit

• Promenade

• Mrs Sen's

"We passed by our church...We passed by a house...We passed the doll store...We passed the bank..."

• Mrs Sen's

• The Doll's House

• A Walk to the Jetty

• Promenade