Home > Work > Kinfolk

Kinfolk QUOTES

Kinfolk QUOTES

1 " I should like to penetrate your mind with my own,” he said. “I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Kinfolk

2 " Old One," the tenant said apologetically. "It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Kinfolk

3 " Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Kinfolk

4 " Peter groaned loudly. "Sonia Pan! She's ugly."
Mris. Liang would not yield. "Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money."
"It would be no use for her to waste money on herself," Louise murmured. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Kinfolk

5 " To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Kinfolk