Quotation Integration Examples

Original Passage:

“I could not stir even a finger; I could not lift my voice; I could not even breathe, and though I expected every moment to see the sleeping  man murdered, I could not even close my eyes to shut out the horrible spectacle, which I had not the power to avert” (Le Fanu 125).

Quotation Integration:

Although the narrator “expected every moment to see the sleeping man murdered,” she is unable to move, speak, breathe, or even shut her eyes against the “horrible spectacle” which she “had not the power to avert” (Le Fanu 125).

Fear acts as a supernatural power, disabling the narrator from “stir[ring] even a finger,” or “lif[ting] [her] voice,” or even closing her “eyes to shut out the horrible spectacle” (Le Fanu 125).

The narrator recounts the attack she thought was directed at her husband, remembering that when “the horrible spectacle” occurred, “I could not stir even a finger; I could not lift my voice; I could not even breathe” (Le Fanu 125).