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News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3) QUOTES

News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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 (Thrush Green, #3)

2 " 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 (Thrush Green, #3)

3 " 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 (Thrush Green, #3)