“great quotes” in The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

·     “he saw the bridge divide and fling five gesticulating ants into the valley below.”  ·     referring to her heart as “that battered throne”  ·     Dona Maria … “the knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as the tide acts upon cliffs.’  ·     Dona Maria … “at last, like a general calling together in the rain and by night  the dispersed division of his army she assembled memory and attention and a few other faculties …”  ·     Abbess … “Yet she continued diligently in her task. She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat …”  ·     “that city of large-girdled women …”  ·     “… produced miracles as naturally as the charged air of a sultry day produces lightning.” In other words, not miracles, but explainable events if one has sufficient knowledge.