The House Is on Fire Quotes

“Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“But now he realizes that all any of these documents are is words, and not even very mysterious words. Words like 'free' and 'rights' and 'liberty'. How can it be that so few words, scratched on a piece of letter paper, are what’s separating Sara and him from a life of freedom?”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“Ritchie describes fathers shrieking for their children, husbands for their wives, and brothers for their sisters, but it was the other way around. It’s the women who were shrieking, while the men pushed past them—and in some cases, climbed over them—to get to the door.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“he remembers a bit of Aristotle, who was so concerned with the virtue of man. Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“This new United States would like to pretend it bears no relation to Mother England,” Anderson says, “but test the winds and you’ll find a country growing more puritanical with every passing day.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“Sally and her sisters were instructed by their mother, Dorothea, who read little besides The Art of Cookery, but had managed that singular and spectacular feat of catching a husband equal to her in wealth and rank, which—in her opinion—made her eminently qualified to educate her daughters.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“What's the resolution for?'

"How did they put it? I think they called it an expression of their sorrow at the loss of the governor, and 'other worthy and meritorious citizens'.

Not one of the men in the crowd looks half as sorrowful as the woman sitting before her, which makes her wonder how a resolution written by women might have read.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

“I do not wish to topple any empires, only to see the record reflect my experiences and the experiences of women in my position.”
― Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire