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Highlights
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity,—but that would be asking too much of fate!
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 22-23 2020-05-31 02:14:31
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 25-25 2020-05-31 02:14:53
John is a physician, and perhaps—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 27-29 2020-05-31 02:15:17
He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 51-52 2020-05-31 02:16:51
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate, and provoke study, and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 60-62 2020-05-31 02:17:56
But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 69-70 2020-05-31 02:18:47
I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 89-90 2020-05-31 02:20:34
I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy store.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 97-99 2020-05-31 02:21:50
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 156-156 2020-05-31 11:26:23
At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 191-193 2020-06-01 02:32:28
step like that is improper and might be misconstrued. I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 280-283 2020-06-02 23:57:31
“I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
<The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition)>(Perkins Gilman, Charlotte) Highlight on Location 296-297 2020-06-02 23:58:18