48 pages • 1 hour read
Laura StevenOur Infinite Fates
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Important Quotes
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, child death, and sexual content.
“The ribbon binding their wrists together was red as a wound.”
(Prologue, Page 1)
This line contains both a simile and a symbol/motif. The simile compares the red cord around the wrists of the bride and groom to a bloody cut, emphasizing the pain that Arden and Evelyn’s love has brought and will continue to bring them. The color red symbolizes this love throughout the text, emphasizing The Power of Love to Shape Human Events.
“We could just skip the Montague-Capulet performance, no?”
(Chapter 1, Page 7)
Evelyn’s wry allusion to Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet is apt for a number of reasons. First, the feuding fathers of the Sola and Quiñónez families hate one another for no good reason, just like Lord Capulet and Lord Montague, and yet their children have fallen in love. Moreover, the allusion foreshadows the star-crossed nature of Arden and Evelyn’s relationship in this lifetime, as in so many others. Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths seemed to be fated, and Evelyn sometimes feels similarly about hers and Arden’s.
