9 quotes found
“I can't look at everything hard enough!”
“Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”
“Everybody has a right to their own troubles.”
“People are meant to go through life two by two. Taint natural to be lonesome.”
“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.”
“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and...”
“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste...”
“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip ...”
“I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didnt quite see the ...”
