How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared. We shall not always give out a sound like a beaten gong as one sensation strikes and then another. Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens." (2b.17)
This is Louis seemingly foreshadowing the fact that the six narrators' perspectives might actually be (or become) one. That's kinda-sorta romantic, in a '90s way.
Quote #2
"Having dropped off satisfied like a child from the breast, I am at liberty now to sink down, deep, into what passes, this omnipresent, general life. (How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.) One observes curious hesitations at the door of the lift. This way, that way, the other? Then individuality asserts itself. They are off. They are all impelled by some necessity. Some miserable affair of keeping an appointment, of buying a hat, severs these beautiful human beings once so united." (4b.3)
This observation comes from Bernard as he's watching a group of train passengers scatter after riding the night train together. In Bernard's view, sharing the ride has created some kind of union between them all that is now broken as they "assert" their own individuality. He also associates their tedious daily routines and actions with this assertion of individuality, which is interesting…
Quote #3
"Now I am drawn back by pricking sensations; by curiosity, greed (I am hungry) and the irresistible desire to be myself. I think of people to whom I could say things: Louis, Neville, Susan, Jinny and Rhoda. With them I am many-sided. They retrieve me from darkness." (4b.7)
This quote from Bernard shows how crucial Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan, and Rhoda are to his sense of identity, and specifically his sense that he's "many-sided."