How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"I mean: how shall I explain? I— it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again." (29.14)
Contrast Newland's reaction to Madame Olenska here to his reaction to May, who perpetually bores him.
Quote #8
"I want— I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that— categories like that— won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter." (29.55)
Sadly, there is no such world for Newland and Madame Olenska. Not even Hawaii.
Quote #9
He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its actions. (30.9)
Contrast Newland and May's "tepid honeymoon" to Newland and Madame Olenska's relationship. While Newland and May see each other every day, Newland and Madame Olenska only see each other once in a long while.