In Winter I Get Up at Night Quotes

“As I began to dream, I could see a full day, and then another, and then a summer sweeping speedily over the zinnias in my mother’s flower garden, and how the shadow of the house touched the blossoms, then moved on.”
― Jane Urquhart, In Winter I Get Up at Night

“The novitiates were permitted only twenty secular words a day, so questions were not an option.”
― Jane Urquhart, In Winter I Get Up at Night

“How strange we all are! Most of us come from Irish and Scottish tribes cast out by the mother country. But we are still reading her poems and singing her songs. How odd that we define foreignness as those whose speech holds the trace of another language, and then we ignore altogether our own foreignness on land that was never our own.”
― Jane Urquhart, In Winter I Get Up at Night

“It was a man’s world then. Up until the war, men owned the forward momentum that was essential to a vital life.”
― Jane Urquhart, In Winter I Get Up at Night