Status Updates From Rest and Be Thankful

“The difference between feeling happy at eighteen and feeling happy at thirty-seven was that you appreciated it when you were thirty-seven.”

I’m not thirty-seven yet but that’s so true

“Sarah! You know we’ve never antagonized anyone! Except those Nazis in Paris. And then it did annoy me that we had to do it so secretly.”

i love mrs peel

“How very full of experiment we were then… we'd try anything once. But nowadays when we want to feel happy all we say is, "How this is like what we once loved!"
It is all a kind of seeking back - a sort of middle-aged retreat.”

"Train loads of ex-convicts and gamblers poured into Laramie: the railroad stopped there, you see. It was sort of tough on Laramie."
"I take it that Laramie attended to its uninvited guests? "
"It had to. And once the citizens started shooting, you'd be surprised how the lawbreakers faded out. "

“He was a refugee, you see, from Bela Kun …The Communist,” Mrs. Peel went on. “Jackson’s father was a farmer. Although I don’t quite understand how Communists will go around shooting farmers who disagree with them, and then blame famines on countries that don’t shoot their farmers.”
Mrs. Gunn said it seemed kind of unreasonable to her, at that.