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The Lieutenant's Lady QUOTES

The Lieutenant's Lady QUOTES

1 " Seventy-five years ago a young woman kept a diary in which she wrote some of her innermost thoughts, many of the daily happenings, and all of the weather. This story is the fictionalized version of the real diary. The thoughts more or less trite pedantic have been curtailed, the happenings (for obvious reasons) sometimes changed, but the weather remains practically intact. ...So step out of the yellowed diary, Linnie Colsworth,.... Recreate yourself from the fading ink of it's pages and help us understand something of the stanch heart that beat under those hard little stays, bidding you defy convention three-quarters of a century ago. "

― Bess Streeter Aldrich , The Lieutenant's Lady

2 " ..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted. "

― Bess Streeter Aldrich , The Lieutenant's Lady

3 " The country’s already got a two billion dollar debt. Say that over and see if you can sense it. Not millions . . . two billions. I doubt if the country’ll ever take on a load like that again once it’s settled. "

― Bess Streeter Aldrich , The Lieutenant's Lady