News from Thrush Green Quotes

“How many people had stood here, as she did now, puzzled, unhappy, numb with pain and perplexity? And how many had found comfort in the knowledge of the continuity of life, of being but one link in a long chain of human experience, in this old, old setting?”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green

“My parents were great readers of poetry and had a weakness for the light fantastic.'
'A pleasant change from the heavy dismal we suffer from everywhere today,' commented Winnie.”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green

“Aliens”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green: A Novel

“Half an hour with a swinging mattock loosened the worst of the roots,”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green: A Novel

“What about buttering its paws?’ asked Paul, anxious to show his knowledge. ‘Fiddlesticks!’ snapped Dotty. ‘You do as I say, and he’ll soon settle down.”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green: A Novel

“Above stairs were two modest bedrooms and a bathroom with Victorian fittings and a geyser which made threatening rumbles, wheezes and minor explosions when in use.”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green: A Novel

“You need a few prunes,' said the doctor, 'and a bit of roughage.'
'Donald!' protested Winnie. 'Must you? At table?'
'Sorry, my dear, sorry,' said her husband.
'Too bad of me,' apologised Richard. 'Living alone such a lot makes one over-interested perhaps in one's natural functions.'
Winnie felt that this could lead to somewhat alarming disclosures which might be regretted by all. She changed the subject abruptly.”
― Miss Read, News from Thrush Green