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"James Joyce's Dubliners" Quotes
"James Joyce's Dubliners" is a collection of short stories depicting the lives, struggles, and epiphanies of ordinary Dublin residents in the early twentieth century.
fiction | Published in 1993
Quotes
He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad.
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed to him.
One by one they were all becoming shades.
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe.
He would be free in the evening. He would go away from the house, to somewhere far off, and never come back.
She was tired. She wanted to get out of it all, to go away and be free.
He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear.
He listened while the parlor clock ticked slowly and waited for her decision.