“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories. ”
“You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.”
“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.”
“That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party.”
“... the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.”
“One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.”
“But faith is so easy to hold onto when you don't need it. And so hard to find when you do.”
“Je sens en moi, confusément, des aspirations extraordinaires, des sortes de lames de fond, des mouvements, des agitations incompréhensibles, et que je ne veux pas chercher à comprendre, que je ne veux même pas observer, par crainte de les empêcher de se produire.”
“Come on . . .” Stephen called back over his shoulder.”
“And even though he enjoyed being around her, he resisted her,
because he was supremely aware that he wasn't the old Robert any longer; he was Bit, a piece of what
he'd once been.”
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