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