Mrs. Ross (page 23) “You think Rowena belonged to you. Well, I’m here to tell you, Robert, no one belongs to anyone. We’re all cut off at birth with a knife[…]
Tag: Quotation Presentation
the feeling of being an inadequate christian
“And here I am, the same Hagar, in a different establishment once more, and waiting again. I try, a little, to pray, as one’s meant to do at evening, thinking perhaps the knack of it[…]
Blindness and Delusion: Quotation Presentation
The Stone Angel: Margaret Laurence “Summer and winter she viewed the town with sightless eyes. She was doubly blind, not only stone but unendowed with even a pretense of sight.” (Pg. 3) “Every last[…]
They say that eyes are like the windows to the soul.
As is indicated by my highly subtle use of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer as my featured image, my quotation presentation is about this painting’s eponymous book by Tracy Chevalier. “I had been[…]
Quotation Presentation: Perspective to Promote Purposeful Ignorance in Pursuit of the Unknown
This blog is the continuation of the emulation/matter from my Quotation Presentation. The quotation used for my presentation is taken from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale and reads,“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created[…]
Never Just One (Blog Presentation)
“Only one skill. And it’s this: “tahamul”. Endure.” Kahleed Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns. (Page 18) Say The quote above is said to young Mariam by her mother, Nana. Nana is rejecting further education[…]
The Thousand Splendid Suns Between Our Souls
“Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll’s head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others,[…]
Restless Heart
It’s the song, they said. No, the sea. The luxury. The ship. It’s the sex, they whispered. Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It’s all about Leo. “Everybody wants Jack,” Laila said to Mariam. “That’s what it[…]
a curious love affair (a quotation presentation)
“I must admit to a lifelong love affair with curiosity.” -Timothy Findley as Juliet d’Orsey ( Part 4, pg. 147) Say: Juliet d’ Orsey is telling her accounts of Robert Ross through reading out her childhood[…]
“p r e s e n t a t i o n”
“‘In those days she could have prayed the angels themselves right down from heaven, if she’d been so inclined, and when she lay down on the moss and spread those great white thighs of hers,[…]
