Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Circle.
Justice and Judgment Quotes
"Now imagine the human rights implications. Protestors on the streets of Egypt no longer have to hold up a camera, hoping to catch a human rights violation or a murder and then somehow get the foot...
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
"See, this opens up the possibility of visual surrogates. Imagine I'm bedridden, or too frail to explore the mountain myself. I send someone up with a camera around her neck, and I can experience i...
Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
"You know what I say, right? In situations like this, I agree with the Hague, with human rights activists the world over. There needs to be accountability. Tyrants can no longer hide. There needs t...
Morality and Ethics Quotes
"My mother's eighty-one. She doesn't get around as easily as she once did. A year ago she fell and broke her hip, and since then I've been concerned about her. I asked her to have some security cam...
Greed Quotes
ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN. (1.8.70)
Isolation Quotes
Another message appeared on her second screen, this one from Dan. Fantastic work, Mae! How you feeling?
Mae was astonished. A team leader who checked in with you, and so kindly, on the first day?...
Visions of America Quotes
There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness. (Epigraph)
Women and Femininity Quotes
He paused briefly, allowing Mae to catch her breath. She'd seen these talks online, but being here, in person, seeing Bailey's mind at work, hearing his off-the-cuff eloquence—it was better than...