Explore Book Quotes

“It ain’t no murder killing beasts like that.”

“I don’t want to go back to my home. I’ve been thinking of staying here, where it’s peaceful and far away from everyone. I—I want to be alone.”

“I have no ... authority to be speaking up like a seer ... We’ve had enough seers in this family. ”

“It was home; her roof, her garden, her green acres, her dear trees; it was shelter for the little family at Sunnybrook.”

“Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more because it does so bleed.

“What I’ve figured out is that when you love somebody that much, that hard, that long, you can never get away from them, no matter where you go. And that only comes once in a lifetime. Just can’t get a handle on it. I cannot let go.”

“How many times has my mother said, ‘Don’t eat so much, Chris, your eyes are bigger than your stomach?’” “A million times.” “Two million. Well, paraphrase it, Ralph. Change it to ‘Don’t see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.’ I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can’t give it.”

“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”

“And since people ‘receive’ the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because he or she is better ‘fit’ for the world”

“Ordinary Jack, that’s me. It’s what they should’ve christened me- Ordinary Jack Matthew Bagthorpe- with an e.”