The Lottery And Other Stories Quotes
I was just having a cup of coffee," she said. "May I get you one?
"It’s an interesting time to be alive," he said, as though he were still at the party.
"It’s really a frightening time when a girl sixteen has to think of things like that."
"I keep figuring how it will be." She spoke very softly, very clearly, to a point just past him on the wall.
"You’re going to see your girl, young fellow." He shook his head tolerantly.
"You just take two of these and go to bed for an hour," Mrs. Allen said.
I never would have dreamed of coming in," Emily said, "except for such a bad headache.
We’re on a river," the little boy said. "This is a river and we’re on it.
"You’ll have to walk," she said ominously, for perhaps the third time.
"Everything was going smoothly, although half-an-hour late, when the telephone rang."
"I wait for the first star to come out, And look for its silvery beams."
"I’m sure I don’t know, missus. I’ve always heard that there’s no way to stop a chicken-killing dog."
Mother," he said, "I brought Boyd home for lunch with me.
"I watched him go off the first morning with the older girl next door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended."
"When evening shadows are falling, And dark gathers closely around."
"It was a long, cool room, comfortably furnished and happily placed."
"After living in an old Vermont manor house together for almost eleven years, the two Mrs. Winnings had grown to look a good deal alike."
"There used to be a time of year in San Francisco—in late March, I believe—when there was fine long windy weather."
"When we looked toward the ocean we narrowed our eyes, almost able to see across thirty miles and into a sailor’s face."
"We lived in Burlingame, which is far enough away from San Francisco to have palm trees in the gardens, but near enough so that Dot and I were taken into San Francisco, to the Emporium, to get our spring coats each year."
"Isn’t that silly," Mrs. Arnold said. "I hadn’t meant to say it like that. It’s hard enough to explain anyway, without making it so dramatic."
"The bell of the clock was an annoyance, a warning which had to be reckoned with; she moved uneasily in the hot sun and knew she was awake."
"It was a respectable, well-padded restaurant with a good chef and a group of entertainers who called themselves a floor show; the people who came there laughed quietly and dined thoroughly."
Every time I eat a good dinner," she said, "I think of Walter and the food we used to get in school.
"You never know what's going to happen to you."
"There's nothing any woman can do but make sure when she does have to get out she sure has some place to go."
"I think a successful marriage is the woman’s responsibility."
"You just want to tell someone about it all."
"I feel as if I were all tooth. Nothing else."
"I feel so funny, light-headed, and sort of dizzy."
"The stars are as big as the moon and the moon is as big as a lake."
"I’m glad I’m going down to New York to have Zimmerman take care of this."
"Nothing to do all day but lie under the trees."
"Inside the bus, traveling on, she was nothing; she was passing the trees and the occasional sleeping houses, and she was in the bus but she was between here and there."
"She was so deeply asleep that she stirred uneasily without knowledge, her forehead against the window, the darkness moving along beside her."
"Then again that numbing shock, and, driven awake, she said, frightened, "What’s happened?"
"Back in the bus Jim said, 'Put your head on my shoulder now, and go to sleep.'"
"I’m going to the dentist," she said to Jim.
"I ought to have thanked him, she thought stupidly, and went slowly into the station restaurant, where she ordered coffee again."
"Then someone shook her rudely by the shoulder and said, 'What train you taking, lady, it’s nearly seven.'"
"The grass is so green and so soft," he said, smiling, "and the water of the river is so cool."
"SOMETIMES, she thought, stacking the dishes in the kitchen, sometimes I wonder if men are quite sane, any of them."
"‘Got a letter from Jimmy today,’ he said, when he was unfolding his napkin."
"‘I think you ought to open Jimmy’s letter,’ she said."
"The trouble is, she thought, he really did forget."
"THE MORNING of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day."
"Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes."
"‘You’re in time, though. They’re still talking away up there.’"
"‘Clean forgot what day it was,’ she said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and they both laughed softly."
"‘Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie.’ Mrs. Hutchinson said, grinning, ‘Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you, Joe?’"
"‘It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,’ Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."