Amy Foster Quotes

“For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“He was different; innocent of heart, and full of good will, which nobody wanted, this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“She fell in love under circumstances that leave no room for doubt in the matter; for you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“at him I seemed to see again the other one—the father, cast out”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“brain as a shadow passes away upon a white screen. She lives in the cottage and works for Miss Swaffer. She is Amy Foster for everybody, and the child is 'Amy Foster's boy.' She calls him Johnny—which means Little John. "It is impossible to say whether this name recalls anything to her. Does she ever think of the past? I have seen her hanging over the boy's cot in a”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“hot-tempered, but the sight of some nondescript and miry creature sitting cross-legged amongst a lot of loose straw, and swinging itself to and fro like a bear in a cage, made him pause. Then this tramp stood up silently before him, one mass of mud and filth from head to foot. Smith, alone amongst his stacks with this apparition, in the stormy twilight ringing with the infuriated barking of the dog, felt the dread of an inexplicable strangeness. But when that being, parting with”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster