Great Son Quotes

“He never has seen Seattle; he says he’s crazy to; he says he doesn’t believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.”
― Edna Ferber, Great Son

“You’ll be old yourself someday.” “I know it. That’s why I hate ’em.”
― Edna Ferber, Great Son

“That’s it! We belong to the nineteen hundreds, Vaughan, and Dike and Lina and even Madam, old as she is. But Mike and Reggie and kids like that, why, they’re demi-siècle, they’re half century, they belong to the two thousands. It scares you, it sounds so far away—but not to them. They’ll have the job of fixing up all our mistakes, the demi-siècle boys and girls will. We’re tail end of an era.”
― Edna Ferber, Great Son

“Things used to be plain and simple; you did a thing and you knew how it would turn out. But not now. The world was changing.”
― Edna Ferber, Great Son