Fortune's Daughters Quotes

“By the way.” He began talking again. “There’s another kind of love that is beyond reason. It overtakes you like an illness and keeps you suspended in a kind of frightening abyss. That’s what I felt for you. The months we were together were like being suspended over an abyss.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters

“Closeness. Physical closeness and mental closeness. Sharing of ideas, warmth, silent understanding, tenderness, touching without sexual overtones. Love.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters

“In the fall of 1930, fifteen million Americans were out of work. President Herbert Hoover didn’t do much to alleviate the crisis. Self-reliance, he said, was all Americans needed to get them through what he called “a passing incident.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters

“It would have been so easy from the beginning if she had thought of it in complete reversal. Faith loves.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters

“She realized that all of her adult life she had not ever thought of loving someone but only of being loved. She had never asked “Do I love my father?” She’d only asked “Does my father love me?”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters

“from Robert”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Fortune's Daughters