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This was one of the shortlisted books for the Women's Prize for Fiction. While I was reading it, a friend of mine exclaimed how much she had enjoyed it and I can totally see why. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read.
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. What Mary Whitney used to say was, If there's farting in a room where they are, you may be sure you done it yourself. and even if you never did, you better not say so or it's all Damn your insolence, and a boot in the backside and out on the street with you. p32
Loved this, I really, really did. Sadly it's still true today, to some extent.
/Gone mad/ is what they say, and sometimes /Run mad/, as if mad is a direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in. p33
I really, really loved this quote.
Mary said I might be very young, and as ignorant as an egg, but I was bright as a new penny, and the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn. p149
A look at the times, but this is also true. There is a difference between those that can learn and those that can't and those who choose not to.
I LOVED the description of the quilt and the bed on page 161... I'm not going into it, though.
You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve, by others, once it has got out of your control.
I totally forgot to write down what page this was on. I made a note of this because I was always cautious about what I did with magazines, like whoever was on the photo could tell they'd been recycled or used to wipe glue off of someone's art project or something.
They are hypocrites, they think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about into the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believe they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared. But god is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can. p254
One of my biggest annoyances with churchgoing people is that they keep all their bible stuff inside the church, where the preach about kindness to others, but only apply said kindness when they're at the church itself or at church functions, or where they're being identified by their christian nature and so have to perform in that regard.
LOVED the description of clothing on the tree on page 281. I'm not sharing that either. You've got to go and read this yourself. :)
He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you. p379
I am dealing with this right now where I work. I hate it, it eats me up every day, but I'm learning to get through it and part of that is because of this book. That's sort of odd because it's not meant to be the sort of book that opens your eyes about life, but that's what it's done.
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart. What Mary Whitney used to say was, If there's farting in a room where they are, you may be sure you done it yourself. and even if you never did, you better not say so or it's all Damn your insolence, and a boot in the backside and out on the street with you. p32
Loved this, I really, really did. Sadly it's still true today, to some extent.
/Gone mad/ is what they say, and sometimes /Run mad/, as if mad is a direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in. p33
I really, really loved this quote.
Mary said I might be very young, and as ignorant as an egg, but I was bright as a new penny, and the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn. p149
A look at the times, but this is also true. There is a difference between those that can learn and those that can't and those who choose not to.
I LOVED the description of the quilt and the bed on page 161... I'm not going into it, though.
You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve, by others, once it has got out of your control.
I totally forgot to write down what page this was on. I made a note of this because I was always cautious about what I did with magazines, like whoever was on the photo could tell they'd been recycled or used to wipe glue off of someone's art project or something.
They are hypocrites, they think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about into the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believe they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared. But god is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can. p254
One of my biggest annoyances with churchgoing people is that they keep all their bible stuff inside the church, where the preach about kindness to others, but only apply said kindness when they're at the church itself or at church functions, or where they're being identified by their christian nature and so have to perform in that regard.
LOVED the description of clothing on the tree on page 281. I'm not sharing that either. You've got to go and read this yourself. :)
He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you. p379
I am dealing with this right now where I work. I hate it, it eats me up every day, but I'm learning to get through it and part of that is because of this book. That's sort of odd because it's not meant to be the sort of book that opens your eyes about life, but that's what it's done.
