Status Updates From A Daughter's a Daughter

Genuinely would love to go back in time and meet Agatha Christie , what an interesting mind

Non smetterò mai di pensare che Agata Christie sia FENOMENALE nella veste della romanziera.

‘But is it really natural to go on caring about your young once they’re grown up and out in the world? Animals don’t.’
Edith was scandalized. She said sharply: ‘Animals indeed! We’re Christian men and women. Don’t you talk nonsense, Miss Sarah. Remember the saying: A son’s a son till he gets him a wife. But A Daughter’s a Daughter all your life.’

‘I was so near happiness—so near it—’ Ann’s voice trembled with self-pity—‘and then—I had to let it all go.’
‘Had you?’ Ann paid no attention to the question.
‘I gave it all up—for Sarah!’
‘Exactly,’ said Dame Laura. ‘And you’ve never forgiven her for it, have you?’

Sarah laughed cheerfully, thinking to herself: ‘I’d forgotten how odious Cauliflower was. It’s a good thing for Mother I settled his hash.’

Laura paused. She spoke with a sudden startling energy. ‘The trouble with a sacrifice is that it’s not over and done with once it’s made! It goes on …’ Ann stared at her in surprise.

Do you know what you have always reminded me of? Those lines in Homer.’ He quoted with relish and at some length in Greek. ‘There,’ he said, beaming. ‘Thank you, Geoffrey,’ said Ann. ‘I don’t know what it means—’ ‘It means that—’ ‘No, don’t tell me. It couldn’t possibly be as nice as it sounds. What a lovely language Greek is.

Likely source?