Thrush Green Quotes

“chip-straw hat.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Bembridge, and he felt more and more like the unfortunate Wedding Guest who encountered the Ancient Mariner.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Norfolk breeches”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Liberty tie”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“hap piness”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Mrs. Curdle’s weather-beaten cheeks for over fifty years and these, with the exception of a gold brooch with the word Mizpah embossed upon it, were the only ornaments that the old lady wore.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Her hair she combed through carefully with soapy water and braided it into shiny sticky bands, with two loops hanging at each side of her head, each encircling an ear.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“The faint, but heady, perfume of a spring woodland was to stay with Ben for the rest of his life, and was connected, for ever, with a lover’s happiness.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green: The classic nostalgic novel set in 1950s Cotswolds

“Molly sang at the thought of the pretty things awaiting her upstairs. She would wash up, and then she would take up a jug of warm rain water to her bedroom and wash herself in the blue and white bowl on the corner washstand. She would brush her hair till it frothed around her head and then tie the yellow ribbon smoothly across.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“wheel-backed chairs”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Life was too dreadfully real and earnest these days, thought Mrs. Bailey, and all the young people were middle-aged at twenty. And look at the dreary and revolting books and plays they wrote, about the most brutal and depraved creatures who didn’t know their own minds, even when they had them!”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“for the way lay close to the coconut shies.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“Vinolia soap,”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“ringing a wedding peal and sweeping up the confetti and gay little silver horseshoes afterward.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“She dressed herself in her black stuff dress,”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“You will forget,” he assured her seriously. “Look at the day ahead and never backward. You don’t need a caravan for happiness, you know.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“At last—at last, Paul told himself, it was the first day of May! And at this point he sat up in bed, said “White Rabbits!” aloud, to bring luck throughout the coming month,”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“barley-sugar sticks,”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green

“If only people would realize that light-hearted and gay things were not any less significant than the violent and brutish, what a step forward it would be. Because a song, a book, a play, a picture or anything created was gay it did not necessarily follow that it was trivial. It might well be... a finer thing, because it had been fashioned with greater care and artifice; emotion remembered and translated to give pleasure, rather than emotion remembered and evincing only an involuntary and quite hideous howl.”
― Miss Read, Thrush Green