How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"When I came into the room tonight," said Susan, "I stopped, I peered about like an animal with its eyes near to the ground. The smell of carpets and furniture and scent disgusts me. I like to walk through the wet fields alone, or to stop at a gate and watch my setter nose in a circle, and to ask: Where is the hare? I like to be with people who twist herbs, and spit into the fire, and shuffle down long passages in slippers like my father. The only sayings I understand are cries of love, hate, rage and pain." (4b.46)
Even now that Susan is much older, she seems to have remained fairly intense, admitting that she only understands cries of love, hate, rage, and pain. She's even got strong feelings about surprising items such as carpets and furniture, which she finds "disgusting."
Quote #8
"It is hate, it is love," said Susan. "That is the furious coal-black stream that makes us dizzy if we look down into it. We stand on a ledge here, but if we look down we turn giddy."
"It is love," said Jinny, "it is hate, such as Susan feels for me because I kissed Louis once in the garden; because equipped as I am, I make her think when I come in, "My hands are red," and hide them. But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love." (4b.56-57)
Once again, we're getting love and hate as two sides of the same coin. Jinny suggests that the two are "indistinguishable" in the narrators' feelings toward each other.
Quote #9
"This is Oxford Street. Here are hate, jealousy, hurry, and indifference frothed into the wild semblance of life. These are our companions." (5b.23)
Rhoda, too, suggests that hate, love, and other emotions and attitudes can exist side by side in the "wild semblance of life" that characterizes Oxford Street; ostensibly, one does not exclude the others.