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“There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independent natures, both of them. They knew what they liked, and were not always trying to imitate other people. They loved children and animals and music, and rough play, and digging in the earth. They liked to prepare rich, hearty food and to see people eat it; to make up soft white beds and to see youngsters asleep in them. They ridiculed conceited people and were quick to help unfortunate ones. Deep down in each of them there was a kind of hearty joviality, a relish of life, not over-delicate, but very invigorating. I never tried to define it, but I was distinctly conscious of it. I could not imagine Antonia's living for a week in any other house in Black Hawk than the Harlings.”

Love Life Children Independence Vigor Antonia Mrs Harling

Author:Willa Cather

“They drained the red-tinged sherry from the cranberries, tasting as they went. Isabelle dropped the swollen berries like a long ruby necklace across the rosemary and garlic, Antonia adding a thin stream of milky-green olive oil, finally covering the mixture with slices of translucent pink and white pancetta.”

Cooking Sherry Cranberries Isabelle Antonia

Book:The School of Essential Ingredients

Source: The School of Essential Ingredients

“Her grandmother's cooking area was small- a tiny sink, no dishwasher, a bit of a counter- but out of it came tortellini filled with meat and nutmeg and covered in butter and sage, soft pillows of gnocchi, roasted chickens that sent the smell of lemon and rosemary slipping through the back roads of the small town, bread that gave a visiting grandchild a reason to unto the kitchen on cold mornings and nestle next to the fireplace, a hunk of warm, newly baked breakfast in each hand.”

Grandmother Childhood Memories Italian Cooking Antonia

Book:The School of Essential Ingredients

Source: The School of Essential Ingredients

“Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.”

Said Bed Married Argument Angry Pinter Antonia

Author:Elton John

“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”

Thinking Knows Littles Lost Gone Fire Teeth Instance Faded Antonia

Book:My Ántonia

Source: My Ántonia

“It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy”

Names Nice Please Mud You Again Laura Antonia Nice To See You

Author:MaryJanice Davidson

“Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.”

Looks Turns Sides Walks Forget Grief Accepting Terrible Lays Burden Accepted Pace Antonia

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.”

People Humans Felt Realizing Emotion Behinds Conscious Lays Envy Unhappy Unhappiness Antonia

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.”

Heart Said Done Girl Antonia

Book:My Antonia

Source: My Antonia