Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotes that reveal the character of Troy

1. “Now, you see my dilemma. Perhaps I am a bad man – the victim of my impulses – led away to do what I ought to leave undone.” (pg. 202)

2. He sank upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robbin, kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it. (pg. 262)

3. Troy found unexpected chords of feeling to be stirred again within him as earlier in the day. She was handsome as ever, and she was his. (pg. 303)