Important Quotations Explained
1. They
told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called
Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!
2. There
are thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years,
affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers
and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their
epic fornications—to put it plainly! . . . The four-letter word
deprived us of our plantation, till finally all that was left—and
Stella can verify that!—was the house itself and about twenty acres
of ground, including a graveyard, to which now all but Stella and
I have retreated.
3. Oh,
I guess he's just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but
maybe he's what we need to mix with our blood now that we've lost
Belle Reve.
4. I
am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But
what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in
the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't
ever call me a Polack.
5. Whoever
you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
