Miss Bishop Quotes

“Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across her bed and cried because life was such a tragic thing.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop

“...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop

“He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate 'E' with a curving tail as long as some prehistoric baboons.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop