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The Vet's Daughter QUOTES

The Vet's Daughter QUOTES

1 " It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church. "

― Barbara Comyns , The Vet's Daughter

2 " Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[...] "

― Barbara Comyns , The Vet's Daughter

3 " Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone. "

― Barbara Comyns , The Vet's Daughter

4 " When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies. "

― Barbara Comyns , The Vet's Daughter

5 " Everywhere in the house there were sad little reminders—a limp string shopping-bag hanging from the kitchen door; a fortune-telling book in the dresser-drawer; a fern in the dining-room window that had died from neglect since she had ceased to tend it; and one small black glove mixed up with the string she used to save—little things like that were everywhere. "

― Barbara Comyns , The Vet's Daughter