Summer at Fairacre Quotes

“It was at times like these that I could forget the petty problems of the daily round. It was good to have the pinpricks of Mrs Pringle and Minnie put into perspective by the unchanging values of nature.”
― Miss Read, Summer at Fairacre: The ninth novel in the Fairacre series

“Dear old Donne,’ I went on, watching Amy waving to a departing car, ‘stressed that no man was an island, and so on. But I think each man is an island, and no one knows his neighbour completely. That’s what’s so shattering when someone we think we know well does something horrifying like stealing or committing suicide.”
― Miss Read, Summer at Fairacre: The ninth novel in the Fairacre series

“I don’t know which is worse, the awful feeling that a shared life is broken, or the fact that everything seems so pointless when one is alone. It hardly seems worth the bother of cooking, for instance, or buying new clothes.”
― Miss Read, Summer at Fairacre: The ninth novel in the Fairacre series

“In a feverish world she is like a cool drink.”
― Miss Read, Summer at Fairacre