How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"[…] The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!" She lifted her hands to her face, and he saw her thin shoulders shaken by a sob. (9.63)
Madame Olenska is overwhelmed by society's insistence that she constantly pretend to be pleasant.
Quote #2
His heart sank, for he saw that he was saying all the things that young men in the same situation were expected to say, and that she was making the answers that instinct and tradition taught her to make— even to the point of calling him original. (10.17)
Archer is pained by his own cliché behavior, by May's cliché behavior, and by the cliché of being a young man already annoyed by his fiancée.
Quote #3
He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.
"Sameness— sameness!" he muttered, the word running through his head like a persecuting tune […] (10.30-3)
Can you imagine doing the same thing over and over again day after day? It would be like eating a chicken Caesar salad for every single meal. No wonder Archer's miserable.