"And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame."

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Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Stella Gibbons

#Children Quotes #Fields Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.”
“I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).”
“People rarely do what they don't want to.”
“The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quellâ€¦well she never kissed me like thatâ€¦I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her thenâ€¦I guess itâ€™s Katnissâ€™ problem. Who to chooseâ€¦Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she canâ€™t survive without.”
“The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.”
“In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.”
“People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.”
“To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.”

Source : WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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