The Snow Gypsy Quotes

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. That kind of fear kills you without you realizing. Like bleeding inside.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. That kind of fear kills you without you realizing.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“It was three weeks later that the letter from Rose’s publisher arrived. He had written to say that he loved the idea of a book about herbal remedies for humans. The letter contained an advance that would tide her over until well after the baby was due. “We’re going to be all right, aren’t we?” She passed the check to Lola, who passed it on to Nieve. They beamed at each other as the child read the amount out loud. “What’s that funny squiggle in front of the number?” She thrust the check up to Rose’s face. “It’s a pound sign—in England we have pounds instead of pesetas.” “How much is it—in pesetas?” When Rose told her, Nieve gasped. “Just for writing a book?” “It’s going to take me quite a long time.” Rose smiled. “And when she’s finished it, she’s going to need a rest.” Lola scooped Nieve up and sat her on her lap. “Why?” “Because next year—in the spring—Auntie Rose is going to have a baby.” Nieve turned to Rose, her mouth open. “Will it be a girl or a boy?” Rose laughed. “I don’t know! We’ll have to wait and see.” “Can I choose its name?” “Well, if it’s a girl, yes, you can—but if it’s a boy . . .” Rose glanced at Lola. “I already have a boy’s name.” “I think I can guess,” Lola said. “Nathan.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“The Gypsies I knew in England used to say that not to forgive someone is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Fear remains in the blood.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Grief is living with someone who’s not there,”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.’” She whispered the words to herself like a mantra. They had been written more than six centuries ago by a British nun”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“the war makes you live every day as if it’s your last.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“not to forgive someone is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“I’m going to find a room in an inn. There won’t be anywhere to put my”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Rose Daniel caught an early train from Waterloo station. It felt good to be getting away from London. Away from the ugliness of the bombed-out buildings and the air of desolation they created. Away from the drabness of the clothes, the shops, the people. There was no color—as if the war had sucked the life out of everything.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable (1952) was their go-”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Fascism is the new Satan,”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Faith was not about facts or certainties; otherwise it wouldn’t be faith.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“We all must die—no one knows the hour or the trouble and pains we may have to bear before our days are ended. Give thanks to God that we are alive this day and free to breathe the sweet air and hear the brown bird in the tree.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Orchard of the Architect” or “the Gardens of Knowing.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Granada is a wicked, sinister place. It was bad enough during the war—but it’s getting worse. Much worse.” “Where do they take the babies?” Rose pulled her shawl tight around her. It wasn’t cold. But what Lola had described chilled her to the core. She pictured Juanita, tucking cloves of garlic under the mattress of Rafaelito’s cradle. Clearly there was something much worse than snakes lurking out there. “They send them to families the government approves of so they’ll grow up as payos, not Gypsies. To save the race. That’s what General Franco says.” It was horribly familiar. Like Hitler all over again. Rose was only too aware of Franco’s Nazi sympathies. But she had never imagined that the evil doctrine of racial purity would outlive Hitler; that in a time of supposed peace, babies would be snatched from their mothers because of their kawlo rat. Their dark blood. “It’s not only the babies they’re”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Grief is living with someone who’s not there, who’s gone out of your life for one reason or another.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy

“Their attitude is a calm acceptance. They say simply, “We all must die—no one knows the hour or the trouble and pains we may have to bear before our days are ended. Give thanks to God that we are alive this day and free to breathe the sweet air and hear the brown bird in the tree.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Snow Gypsy