Fishing in the Styx Quotes

“Rory had a much better start in life than Anne had had. He was not only healthy and sociable, but so well-dressed that his father addressed him as Bub Brummell.”
― Ruth Park, Fishing in the Styx

“In those days of the second World War it was still widely believed that women who had just delivered could reasonably be expected to be off their heads. ‘Yes, dear,’ these meek women said, with a certain mournful importance. ‘I was outa me mind. Terrible, really. All me milk went to the brain. I suppose it curdles, like.”
― Ruth Park, Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics