Main Street Quotes

Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. (1.2.1)

Even the girls who knew that they were going to be married pretended to be considering important business positions. (1.2.8)

As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near relative was a vanilla-flavored sister married to an optician in St. Paul. (1.2.8)

She was not in love—that is, not often, nor ever long at a time. She would earn her living. (1.2.8)

"You know I'm in love with you, Carol!" (2.2.16)

"If his three hundred thousand went back into the town, where it belongs, they could burn up these shacks, and build a dream-village, a jewel! Why do the farmers and the town-people let the baron k...

Nostrums for consumption, for "women's diseases"—notorious mixtures of opium and alcohol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patient for the filling of prescriptions. (4.2.10)

Three gray birds were starting up from the stubble. They were round, dumpy, like enormous bumble bees. (5.1.12)