Louise Mallard Quotes

“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself.”

“She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.”

“There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.”

“She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”