Farthing Quotes

“Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses?”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“This novel is for everyone who has ever studied any monstrosity of history, with the serene satisfaction of being horrified while knowing exactly what was going to happen, rather like studying a dragon anatomized upon a table, and then turning around to find the dragon's present-day relations standing close by, alive and ready to bite.”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“I don't know how I can ever thank you,' David said, struggling into that ridiculous mac again.
'No need. What you can't pay back you pay forward,' Abby said.”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“All the brass instruments and big drums in the world cannot turn “God Save the King” into a good tune, but on the very rare occasions when it is sung in full it does spring to life in the two lines: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks! And, in fact, I had always imagined that this second verse is habitually left out because of a vague suspicion on the part of the Tories that these lines refer to themselves. —George Orwell, “As I Please” (December 31, 1943) FARTHING”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“We had very good servants now, who understood us, and we were happy with them, but in our first few weeks of marriage there’d hardly been a week in which someone hadn’t given notice because we were either too Jewish for them, or not Jewish enough. “Yes, servants these days are terrible,”
― Jo Walton, Farthing

“He ate pork because he wanted to be seen as English, not because he wanted to eat it. I resented it when people served it to him specially. He never talked about it, except once, when he said how he wished that people would read the rest of the things Jews aren’t supposed to eat and take to serving us buttered lobsters or shrimp on toast.”
― Jo Walton, Farthing