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The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories QUOTES

The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " Ross’s style is always beautifully matched to his material – spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes of the mind. (Margaret Laurence's Afterword) "

― Sinclair Ross , The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

2 " What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day’s stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once.
(Cornet at Night) "

― Sinclair Ross , The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

3 " Or perhaps, the thought seized her, perhaps instead of his smile it was she who had changed. She who, in the long, wind-creaked silence, had emerged from the increment of codes and loyalties to her real, unfettered self. She who now felt his air of appraisal as nothing more than an understanding of the unfulfilled woman that until this moment had lain within her brooding and unadmitted, reproved out of consciousness by the insistence of an outgrown, routine fidelity. "

― Sinclair Ross , The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories