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“This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.”
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“I howled less from pain than from the hurt of outraged justice, and my father laughed and remarked with a final, more good-natured whack that I might as well get used to injustice soon as late, for it was the general lot.”
― Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant
― Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant
“Don't you do it, Jen. Y' ain't going to have a baby, are you'?"
"Ma," Minna protested, "how you talk."
"Well, y' ain't, are you?" Grandma persisted.
"No," said Jenny, sadly.
Grandma smiled. "Well, then," she said, "that's fine. If you'd 'a' been going to have a baby it might 'a' made a difference to you. Girls is funny. My, I remember how I cried to marry Minna's pa, and him not worth the powder and shot to shoot him.”
― Febuary Hill
"Ma," Minna protested, "how you talk."
"Well, y' ain't, are you?" Grandma persisted.
"No," said Jenny, sadly.
Grandma smiled. "Well, then," she said, "that's fine. If you'd 'a' been going to have a baby it might 'a' made a difference to you. Girls is funny. My, I remember how I cried to marry Minna's pa, and him not worth the powder and shot to shoot him.”
― Febuary Hill
“remembering her Aunt Constantia, she said, "She blew up a pair of water-wings and stuffed them inside her corset cover. But when she leaned forward in a seductive attitude they went down with a whistle, and her little dog started barking.”
― Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant
― Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant
