Yankee Stranger Quotes

“There, there," she said. "Don't take it so hard, Dee. Wars don't last forever. I know. I can remember...”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“You will not always be happy, my dear, however wise you are--I wasn't--but always take what comes to you--don't fight life, Camilla, accept it with grace...”
― Elswyth Thane, Kissing Kin

“They were so young, so gloriously, obliviously young, that it hurt to look at them.”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“You see, ma’am, I believe in the power and the freedom of the Press. I believe that reporting a war, or a political convention, is a solemn responsibility. Our free educational system is teaching a great mass of people to read. Well, then, it seems to me we ought to be damned careful, begging your pardon, what we hand out to them for a penny or two, to read. Newspapers are being read like the word of God by millions—and who writes them?”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“I'm emptied of all personal feeling about this war, I could become simply an efficient machine with a woman's touch, and that's what a good nurse ought to be.”
― Elswyth Thane, Kissing Kin

“You don't know how I envy you growing up in a big family like that, and how wonderful it seems to somebody like me that there can be a whole party, enough for dancing and music and applause, without ever going outside the family!”
― Elswyth Thane, Kissing Kin

“[t]hey were so young-so gloriously, obviously young, that it hurt to look at them.”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“Any time I'm happier with you drowned in the river, I belong in the Asylum.”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“He laid her hands, palms upward, against his face, and she sat looking down at his bent head, a little disturbed in her soul that he should fling away his principles and his convictions quite so heedlessly for her sake. Mr. Murray, for instance, seemed not to have altered his chosen course a single degree because of Eden. Of course Mr. Murray was a Yankee. Virginia men, she had heard, were more considerate.”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“He had been amused, and sometimes stimulated, and once or twice rather attracted, but he had never been stirred as this honest, laughing Virginia girl had stirred him, with her level green gaze and her odd little dignity, and her sweet reposefulness which was just her breeding.”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“I've seen you by candlelight, and midday, and firelight--and in a thunderstorm. And if I were struck blind as I stand here I would see you till I die as you are now, with tears on your cheeks, because I don't take you in my arms and fight the whole boiling lot of them for you!”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger

“Laurel for you—can you stay on?”
― Elswyth Thane, Yankee Stranger