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Margaret’s parents
"Are we back to this again? You take care of the house, the kids, and me. Don't we matter? Maybe you'd like to go back to working ten-hour shifts with grease on your hands, me getting shot at, and leaving our kids to fend for themselves because you're working late at the factory. Is that what you want? For the war to keep going just so you could feel like you do something?" -p 243
— 8 hours, 44 min ago
"Are we back to this again? You take care of the house, the kids, and me. Don't we matter? Maybe you'd like to go back to working ten-hour shifts with grease on your hands, me getting shot at, and leaving our kids to fend for themselves because you're working late at the factory. Is that what you want? For the war to keep going just so you could feel like you do something?" -p 243
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Rosa
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Somewhere down the road, maybe you'll help pave the way for somebody else. That's how the world gets better, Bitsy. One generation helping the next." Page 232
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"Everybody didn't have the opportunities I did—a father who believed in her and was already in the profession, and who also just happened to have donated to the college and done a bit of guest lecturing," Alice said, chuckling. "So when I see a bright, promising young woman with a desire to enter the field, I try to help pave the way for her, the way Dad did for me. Page 232
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Rosa
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Margaret
Back then, a strange unsettled feeling had come over Margaret when she saw the contents of the refrigerator and the bizarre preparations her mother had made before taking her own life-as if the only thing they might miss later would be the absence of hot meals she would have provided. Margaret had not known what she would find when she opened the door that day. Page 215
— 20 hours, 35 min ago
Back then, a strange unsettled feeling had come over Margaret when she saw the contents of the refrigerator and the bizarre preparations her mother had made before taking her own life-as if the only thing they might miss later would be the absence of hot meals she would have provided. Margaret had not known what she would find when she opened the door that day. Page 215
Rosa
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Gift from the Sea.
Morrow used different seashells as metaphors for stages of a woman's life. The chapter on the double sunrise shell— symbolizing the early marriage, the husband and wife in harmony, mirror image halves hinged at the center—spoke to her deeply. So did the oyster shell chapter, representing later years of marriage, when difficulties would create knobs on the shell surface. Page 193
— May 18, 2026 08:22PM
Morrow used different seashells as metaphors for stages of a woman's life. The chapter on the double sunrise shell— symbolizing the early marriage, the husband and wife in harmony, mirror image halves hinged at the center—spoke to her deeply. So did the oyster shell chapter, representing later years of marriage, when difficulties would create knobs on the shell surface. Page 193
Rosa
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Grandfather reached down into the firm, found an ambitious and unscrupulous but socially acceptable lower-level manager, Howard Gustafson, who was willing to marry his pregnant daughter and keep the secret in exchange for a promotion to director with the promise of more to come.
An elopement was arranged, an announcement was placed in the Times, face was saved, and the problem was solved." Page 166
— May 18, 2026 02:32PM
An elopement was arranged, an announcement was placed in the Times, face was saved, and the problem was solved." Page 166
Rosa
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Charlotte
"After she refused to 'take care of the problem, Denise said, making air quotes with her fingers, "the problem being me, Grandfather got involved. Page 166
— May 18, 2026 02:31PM
"After she refused to 'take care of the problem, Denise said, making air quotes with her fingers, "the problem being me, Grandfather got involved. Page 166
Rosa
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Bitsy and her husband King
So yes, Mrs. Graham, I am a college dropout. It's a huge embarrassment to me, something I've kept secret from everyone, even friends. King is an experienced equine veterinarian, and I'm not. But there's one thing I know how to do that he doesn't: heal a horse with laminitis. I know because I've seen it done success-fully. King never has.' Page 153
— May 18, 2026 02:10PM
So yes, Mrs. Graham, I am a college dropout. It's a huge embarrassment to me, something I've kept secret from everyone, even friends. King is an experienced equine veterinarian, and I'm not. But there's one thing I know how to do that he doesn't: heal a horse with laminitis. I know because I've seen it done success-fully. King never has.' Page 153
Rosa
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Bitsy
"Although," she said slowly, as if reexamining her earlier state-ment. "It does seem a little cruel, doesn't it? I mean, how can you say you love animals and devote your life to taking care of them but still feel absolutely no compunction about eating them!" Page 134
— May 18, 2026 01:37PM
"Although," she said slowly, as if reexamining her earlier state-ment. "It does seem a little cruel, doesn't it? I mean, how can you say you love animals and devote your life to taking care of them but still feel absolutely no compunction about eating them!" Page 134
Rosa
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My personal preference is for in between. I don't think I've ever met anybody who was all one thing or the other, have you? Most people are a walking bundle of contradictions. Page 105
— May 18, 2026 12:22PM
Rosa
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“Books sprung from an author's imagination can be just as meaningful as those based on facts, figures, and events, or even more meaningful. Novels force you to think-to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they're valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. Page 105
— May 18, 2026 12:22PM
