The Angry Wife Quotes

“I don’t know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“At the southwest corner Malvern joined its fields to that of his nearest neighbor, John MacBain. Pierce held his horse just short of the border and looked across a meadow. Part of the MacBain house had been burned down. He had heard of it, but he had not seen it. Now it was plain. The east wing was grey and gaunt, a skeleton attached to the main house. Strange how crippled the house looked—like a man with his right arm withered! No, he was not going to let himself think about crippled men.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“He had come to see that the war had changed nothing that was fundamental in the relationship between whites and blacks.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“I don’t have to tell her,” he thought and rode on. He was astonished at his new freedom. Once he would have felt he had to tell her everything. But the war had separated him from her. He had learned to live to himself—or almost!”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“want to go where my children never hear that a man’s color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“She shook her head. “I don’t know one pretty young man from the other,” she declared.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“Wyeth was perhaps stupid. No, he was not stupid, he was surrounded and isolated by comfort.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“Lucinda’s foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They’d be in him always, maybe.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife