Kate’s Reviews > The Awakening of Miss Prim > Status Update

“Sentimentality is one thing, sentiment is another…Sentimentality is a pathology of the mind, or the emotions, if you like, which swell up, outgrow their proper place, go crazy, obscure judgment. Not being sentimental, doesn’t mean that one lacks feelings, but simply that one knows how to channel them. The ideal— and I’m sure you agree— is to possess a cool head and a tender heart.”

“…we modern primitives also have limitations. We no longer find the time to sit around a table and chat about the human and the divine. And not only do we not find time, we don’t even know how to anymore.”

“We know it’s not a normal fairy tale. It’s a real fairy tale…The Redemption is nothing like a fairytale, Miss. Prim. Fairytales and ancient legends are like the Redemption. Having you ever noticed, it’s like when you copy a tree from the garden on a piece of paper. The tree from the garden doesn’t look like the drawing does it? It’s the drawing that’s a bit, just a little bit like the real tree.”

“You see here, our philosophy is that everything important happens in the morning.”