Farther Afield Quotes

“Yes, I think it is, as far as our natures will allow it to be. If only we’d had children, I think we should have escaped some of this damage.’ ‘There would have been other risks. They might have turned out unsatisfactorily in one way or another, and I think that’s harder to bear than any result of one’s own actions.”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series

“Some poor baby, I thought, as I tottered home, was going to have a very odd bootee. Ah well, we all have to come to terms with life’s imperfections, and one may as well begin young.”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series

“The danger is in making long-term decisions too quickly,”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series

“take ‘too much thought for the morrow, what we shall eat, what we shall put on’.”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series

“The secret, I decided, was simply in the sun. Given that, given warmth and light, one was more than half-way to happiness.”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series

“and a man’s cares fall from him as the things that matter - sunshine, moving water, birds and small beasts - combine to cast their spell upon him.”
― Miss Read, Farther Afield: The sixth novel in the Fairacre series