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“Success isn't about winning; it's about finding the courage to chase your dreams, the strength to rise after every fall, and the wisdom to know that every step is a triumph worth celebrating.”

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“A faint smile showed on his face. ‘The Giant! You and Groen have your little joke all to yourselves, I fancy. Everyone takes it for granted the Giant is the Moloch of Machinery—They don’t see that the real Giant is that pigmy figure—man. The individualist who endures through Stone and Iron and who though civilizations crumble and die, fights his way through yet another Glacial Age to rise in a new civilization of which we do not dream . . .’ His smile broadened. ‘As I grow older I am more and more convinced that there is nothing so pathetic, so ridiculous, so absurd, and so absolutely wonderful as Man—”

Mary Westmacott Page 7

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“Looking across the room one day, just after a scene like the above, he saw his father standing by the nursery door with sardonic eyes, watching him. Their eyes met. Something seemed to pass between them—comprehension—a sense of kinship.”

Mary Westmacott Page 16

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“Against that background Vernon saw his mother—saw her for the first time—a magnificent woman with white skin and red gold hair—a being like the pictures in his fairy book, saw her suddenly as something wonderful and beautiful. He was never to forget that strange moment. She was his mother and she was beautiful and he loved her. Something hurt him inside, like a pain—only it wasn’t a pain. And there was a queer booming noise inside his head—a thundering noise that ended up high and sweet like a bird’s note. Altogether a very wonderful moment.”

Mary Westmacott Page 19

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“Winnie, Vernon knew, was going away because of Father. He accepted that fact without any particular interest or curiosity. Nursemaids did sometimes go away because of Father.”

Mary Westmacott Page 20

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“Little boys going on asking foolish questions,’ said Nurse, with the deftness of a long professional career behind her.”

Mary Westmacott Page 21

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“There was a sudden interruption. His mother stood in the doorway. Her eyes were swollen with crying. She dabbed them with a handkerchief. She stood there theatrically miserable. ‘He’s gone,’ she cried. ‘Without a word to me. Without a word. Oh, my little son. My little son.”

Mary Westmacott Page 23

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

“A new nursemaid came, a thin white girl with protruding eyes. Her name was Isabel, but she was called Susan as being ‘more suitable’. This puzzled Vernon very much. He asked Nurse for an explanation. ‘There are names that are suitable to the gentry, Master Vernon, and names that are suitable for servants. That’s all there is to it.”

Mary Westmacott Page 26

Book:Giant's Bread

Source: Giant's Bread

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