How am I meant to learn all these quotes for my wider reading exam and how am I meant to hit every objective in the limited time?

This is a very good question, and one I think is a very important question to ask. If asked well, it could be the answer to everyone's problems.  In the ‘Love Through the Ages’ paper, which is used in the AQA A2 exam and one I sat myself, the main objectives are: quality of expression, language / structure / form, connections and comparisons to wider reading, and context. I think it is important that a student has a very good sense of the main objectives, as I found that most students tend to gravittate towards only analysing language / structure / form in a superfluous amount (as that is what they are used to doing in class, as it is a skill that needs to be practiced), and tend to forget that smart comparisons is where the marks are. What helped me with this was a good sense of context and particular texts, and this is what helped me gain my A*. Learning quotes is not the important part of this exam, it is not a memory test as people like to believe. Hitting every objective in a couple of sentences is not as hard as you think. For example, if you are given a quote from Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo kills himself after finding Juliet's body, I would explain the importance of smartly selecting a quote to focus on. For example: "Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die", and express the importance of making a smart connection. You may choose to compare it to another early modern play (context) for example, T'is Pity She's a Whore, talk about how it may be staged similarly / differently, and how you came to think about the other text. Giovanni says: "Either you must love or I must die". Why the comparison? Why did you think of this? How are they conntected? In this way, you can analyse the structure of the sentence, the play form and the place in the speech from which it comes. The language focus on love / death / drugs and the kiss.