“There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.”
Source: Prologue to Love
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Famous Martha Ostenso Quotes
“Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.”
Source: The White Reef
Source: The Mad Carews
Source: The Young May Moon
Source: The Dark Dawn
Source: The Stone Field
Source: The Stone Field
“You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.”
Source: O River, Remember
Source: The Stone Field
“A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.”
Source: The Mandrake Root
“I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.”
Source: The Mad Carews
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”
Source: The Young May Moon
Source: Prologue to Love
“By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.”
Source: The Stone Field
Source: The Dark Dawn
Source: The Dark Dawn
Source: The Mad Carews
“There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.”
Source: The Mad Carews
Source: The Young May Moon