Jubilee Trail Quotes

“We’re the sort of people who take our own world with us wherever we go”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“Life let you have what you wanted. But life was like a storekeeper who put up a sign saying “Buy now, pay later,” and tempted you into buying so much that you were in debt for years”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“I don’t trust the future. I know the here and now, but I don’t know anything else. That’s why I can’t understand all those easy promises. A man can promise that he will never beat this woman, or that he will do his best to give her food and shelter. Those things are possible. But I don’t understand how he can swear that he’ll feel certain emotions for the rest of his life. How can he know?”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“her affection was warm and solid, the sort of friendship that made no demands, but was simply there, like sunshine.”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else’s.”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“She had thought freedom meant simply the chance to have her own way, with no need to take the consequences of having had it. Well, she knew better now. Life was not a lot of golden adventures that cost you nothing.”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“That”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail

“actresses. But when he got married, he told this fancy woman he was done with her, just like a high-minded man ought to do. But she wouldn’t let him go. He was her last chance, you see. She was through at the Jewel Box. Not that them girls at the Jewel Box are supposed”
― Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail