How we cite our quotes: Volume.Part.Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #4
"You don't remember a fine spring day at Limmeridge," she said, "and your mother walking down the path that led to the school, with a little girl on each side of her? I have had nothing else to think of since, and I remember it." (2.1.6.88)
The idea that Anne has had "nothing else to think of since" is really powerful. It reveals just how damaged her mind is and how she's suffering from a case of arrested development.
Quote #5
[A]nd yet I saw him now, as plainly as if the past time had returned, and we were both together again at Limmeridge House. (2.1.6.56)
Sometimes the past rises up and overtakes the present for characters, particularly when they are distressed. Here Marian sees Walter in a sort of vision.
Quote #6
"Do you believe in dreams?" she whispered to me at the window. "My dreams, last night, were dreams I have never had before. The terror of them is hanging over me still." (2.2.2.14)
Even unreal pasts can be powerful and traumatic. Here Laura's dreams haunt her in her waking life. This scene hints at the mental trauma Laura will suffer in coming chapters, when she has a sort of breakdown.